Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...first two months. The constant pressure to perform--a main feature of one's years at the Point--is intense. Pressure means anxiety and anxiety means constipation. "When I first came here," one senior can admit laughingly now, "I didn't shit for a week." Then he frowns. "I know of one girl who didn't have her period for three months...
...dress for the day and the minutes remaining until formation. It is easy to recognize them; they are not supposed to initiate conversations and they must walk 120 steps a minute, always sticking to the walls of the stairwells and greeting upperclassmen. If another cadet wants to know what's happened in Iran yesterday, the plebe must answer. He is required to read and know the news on the front page of The New York Times and the cover of the sports section. "One of the strategies for getting through plebe year is sleeping whenever you can," says a cadet...
...calls "the fine gray line" between the "honor code" and regulations brings harsher punishments. Last year, Fullerton was caught drinking wine in his room and was slapped with 30 hours of "walking" in return. It would have taken months to work it off, he says, but under a little-know academy rule which states that a visiting head of state can grant amnesty for "walking" cadets, a stopover by the Queen of Thailand cut it short...
...American readers who venture abroad know, there is more than one TIME. There are, in fact, eight editions of the magazine outside the U.S., and each one can augment the fare in the domestic editions with stories of special interest to our foreign audience. The task of making TIME responsive to the regional concerns of its global readership belongs to International Editor Karsten Prager. Building upon the U.S. TIME, Prager decides each week which stories to add overseas with his staff of writers and researchers and, frequently, whether to put a different subject on the cover. When war broke...
...know how Ali will explain his loss--his unwillingness after so much training and so much bravado to give it a real try. How can he explain that he threw only thirty punches in a ten-round fight? How can he convince us that he didn't choke, or that he had never really intended to win and just wanted to pick up $8 million in cool cash...