Word: exam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that ordinarily there is no sexual arousal without scripts-the dramas and fantasies that people create in their minds to trigger sexual excitement. These scripts, he says, are shaped by early traumas that lead to unsolved sexual problems. Without a suitable script-in a situation such as a gynecological exam or a staid nudist camp&$151;there may be touching or nudity but no arousal. With a script, sexual conduct, almost always involving hostility, becomes a way of turning frustration and defeat into ritual triumph...
William Rohl Bright's appointment with 1980 began a quarter-century ago. He was running a fancy-foods business, Bright's California Confections, and taking seminary courses on the side. One night, while studying for a Greek exam, he had an "intoxicating" vision: "God showed me the whole world and gave me the confidence that He would use me and others in this generation to reach the multitudes of the world." That was 1951, and since a generation runs 25 years or so, Bright concluded that victory would come...
...stern system. At present, it is all or nothing: if a cadet fibs about anything, however trivial, out he goes. But the system has broken down. The commission estimated that far more than the 152 juniors who were dismissed from West Point for cheating on an electrical engineering exam last spring were actually involved...
...Faculty Council meeting the next day, Rosovsky asked the committee in charge of working out the calendar details to insure that the fall reading period includes a reasonable number of days, by compressing exam period or intersession...
...coming exam crunch...