Word: wonking
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...were apprehensive when they scored so quickly," head coach Bruce Munro said yesterday. "It set us back," he added. "We played a good team and they didn't wonk us by any means...
...should have the same mix of public school and private school graduates, of scientists and humanists, and of academic brightness and benightedness. If these quotas are used, the theory goes, no House will be stereotyped as a preppie House or a pre-med House, a jock House or a wonk House...
...unsettling day for us, and for the perplexed jock from West Heights High, U.S.A., or the analytic wonk, with eight "fives" on his Advanced Placement exams. That spring, my roommates were up late one night when the phone rang. It was a friend at Radcliffe looking for her own roommate; she was hysterical, but did manage to say that the United States and Russia were at war. And she was serious, too. My roommates said okay, she hung up, and they sat around calmly discussing whether to wake me and tell me that the world was about to be enveloped...