Word: exam
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While many University of Arkansas graduates are looking forward to a few weeks of post-exam rest, Judy King, 21, has already plunged into her next big project: her June 25 wedding to fellow student Kent Hirsch. The two met while taking a freshman placement exam at Methodist Hendrix College, which King attended for two years while completing the prerequisites for the University of Arkansas School of Dental Hygiene. After the wedding, King will work for a group of four dentists in order to help her husband through law school. "You have to devote full time to law school...
...Biographer Andrew Field, Nabokov: His Life in Part must seem like the roughest final exam of his academic life. Field, 39, is a New Jersey-born scholar who now teaches literature at Griffith University in Australia. He has had a working and personal relationship with his subject since the publication of Nabokov: His Life in Art (1967), Field's excellent study of the Russian American's novels and stories...
...student and football star, Powell followed a deep Southern tradition by deciding on a military career. In 1961 he was admitted to the Air Force Academy in Colorado, only to be expelled six months before graduation for cheating on a history exam (he glanced at a course outline during a break). "You don't know what loneliness is," he says, "until you drive into your driveway at home, in the Deep South, on Christmas Eve, having just had your ass booted out of a military academy." He went on to Georgia State University, where he earned a degree...
Amphetamines or "speed," popular and widespread during reading and exam periods. Amphetamines go by many names from "dexies" to "beauties" to "speckled birds." They are addictive for constant pill-poppers and brutal on the heart and central nervous system, as are most hard drugs...
Still, the three of them got along alright. Todd learned to listen to his Bartok on earphones, and stopped telling the other two when he fell in love with anyone of whom they wouldn't approve. Sure, he got a little hard to take around exam time, when he constantly threatened to jump out the wimdow rather than write the last three pages of his paper, but Sam and Mark laughed that off, too, and cheered Todd up by starting waterfights or going out to Fathers...