Word: plaudits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tall, good-looking, and athletic, Bok made good on the family roots right off the bat as an undergraduate at Stanford, earning plaudit as a veritable Big Man on Campus, a reputation he carried with him to Harvard Law School...
Passive by nature, Haider is also highly suggestible. His father-in-law suggests that he join the Nazi Party, so he does. An old World War I buddy (Pip Miller) suggests that he join the SS elite corps, so he does. The uniform thrills him, as does a written plaudit from the Führer on his pro-euthanasia novel: "The surge of pride in me! Reading that scrawled sentence in Adolfs shaky hand-It said: 'Written from the heart...
...most laughter was one Kirkland House resident's present--a workout log book for Friday and Saturday nights, complete with spaces for pulse rates, hours of sleep, and calories burned. Also memorable was the king-size tube of toothpaste presented to perpetually-smiling freshman JEANNE FLOYD, and the "First" plaudit to sophomore NANCY GARDNER for a gutsy effort in her first try at competitive swimming...