Word: kangaroo
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ends, and the war comes nearer. The crippled Phineas returns to Devon School, announces gaily that the war is a fraud, and begins training the tormented Gene for the 1944 Olympics. But what happened in the tree obtrudes ike the maimed athlete's dragging leg. In a weird kangaroo court, even Phineas is made to accept the truth. He staggers out of the room, breaks his leg in another fall, and this time dies. "My war ended before I ever put on a uniform," Gene reflects. "I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed...
...spend a great amount of my time in counseling seniors about colleges. Apparently I shall have to move my office to one of our elementary schools in the future. I suppose I should also pull my own five-year-old away from Captain Kangaroo and force him into making a vocational choice...
...when Regler was released in 1940, he was proud of a graduation gift from the "bums"; it was a certificate: "By your departure, the camp is impoverished, but liberty is enriched." In the camp, too, he had heard Communist Gerhard Eisler presiding in a latrine over a party kangaroo court-an experience that afflicted him with further doubts, and diarrhea...