Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dropout from Johns Hopkins, Agnew studied law while working at Maryland Casualty Co. in the sprinkler-leakage department. After Army service in the war, he hung out his lawyer's shingle-and starved. Driven to the help wanted ads, he became assistant personnel manager at Schreibers', a Baltimore supermarket chain. Then the Army recalled Agnew and nearly sent him to Korea, although he was a married man in his 30s with three children...
...mules and dogs can park themselves in a House Beautiful driveway to die, and where the black principal of a segregated school turns out the greatest high school marching band in the nation. At 22 Harriman is a seasoned eccentric-ex-trumpet prodigy, pistol-packing fantasist and medical-school dropout. He has also grown obsessed with the legend of Geronimo, the Apache warrior who lived by his own laws. By the time Hannah's rascally hero moves on from Elvis Presley to the murder of Medgar Evers, he has gone the route from private inrage to public outrage...
...televised hearings and on talk shows, fellow newsmen want to interview him, and the reigning powers that he assaults seem powerless before him. For roughly 9,999 newsmen out of 10,000, that vision remains forever fantasy, but for Jack Northman Anderson it has all come true. A college dropout with no intellectual pretensions, a relentless square whose biggest indulgences are a Sunday-afternoon nap and a second ice-cream cone for dessert, a clumsy writer who has yet to put together any memorable combination of words, he has nonetheless emerged in the past dozen weeks as the pre-eminent...
...Eight years ago I was a housewife, a mother, a college dropout. Today I'm still a housewife and mother, but I'm also teaching English at a university and working on a doctoral dissertation...
Nonetheless, a few myths have fallen by the wayside. There has been no discernible loss of intellectual quality. Men have not dropped off in their studies because of the "distraction" of girls. The dropout rate for the women is only half that of the men (2.3% v. 4.4%). The women have higher grades-and the proportion of those going on to graduate school is about equal to that of men. Significantly, perhaps, more girls than boys choose law schools (17% v. 15%), a percentage far higher than the national norm...