Word: exam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Skirts, Pink Toenails. Today, at 27, Princess Aisha is a deep-breasted, wide-hipped, volatile young woman who can look one moment as serene and majestic as Nefertiti, and the next as disorganized and disheveled as a college girl at exam time. Her villa regularly swarms with visiting girls and women; when Aisha entertains, its marble walls ring with female giggles and pop tunes (some Aisha favorites: Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong) like a U.S. girls' dormitory. Aisha has abandoned the slacks and blue jeans which once raised orthodox eyebrows in pre-independence Morocco, but still favors slim...
...main Crimson weakness today, as usual, will be in the scrum, which is sadly short of both height and weight. The absence of Mike Nightingale and Jim Cooper in the exam room leaves seniors Geoff Locke and Bill Gill as the only tall line-out forwards, and there is a distinct lack of 200-pounders...
Better Than Confidential. Professor Martin's exam paper ended by inviting examinees to comment on the Wise Guy's speech, "trying to show where he spoke the truth, where he spoke half-truth, and where he spoke nonsense...
...began the final exam for one of the most popular courses at Amherst College -Religion 22. Students were not particularly surprised: Episcopalian Professor James Alfred Martin Jr. is celebrated for his offbeat exams. (Once he directed students to write TV scripts for the program You Are There at the Council of Nicaea and the Diet of Worms.) Last week, in reprinting Martin's most recent final, the Amherst Alumni News provided readers with a thought-provoker and argument-starter of uncommon ingenuity. As the exam question continues, the beer-guzzling Wise Guy gives this racy history of the Christian...
...Although exams were a week away and the bureau had almost closed down for the summer, the student and a co-worker from the Harvard Defenders spent six days tramping the part of Boston where the murder had occurred. Two days before their first exam, they turned up with...