Word: examing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some of the world's most elegant women, and for the past 16 months he's been practicing his art in a Manhattan shop as well. Trouble is, New York State requires a license for that sort of thing, and it wants him to take its hairdresser exam. "Asinine and obsolete," said Sassoon. "The test requires that I do finger waving and reverse pin curling-things that haven't been used since Gloria Swanson was in silent movies." It wasn't that he couldn't do these things, he added, but that he wouldn...
...native of Cincinnati, Schrotel came to the police department during the Depression, went through night law school while in charge of the Identification Bureau, won appointment as chief in 1951 after scoring a phenomenal 99.33% on the promotion exam. During his regime, Schrotel quarantined Cincinnati against the spread of organized crime, prevented gambling and prostitution in Kentucky border towns such as Newport from sweeping across the Ohio River...
...between clicks and whirrs, drips and hums, bangs and roars, the intermittent sounds seem psychologically the worst. A Japanese college student, cramming for an exam, got so maddened by a pile driver that he ended his own noise problem forever by rushing out and putting his head between the pile and the descending hammer. The gentle Mabaans, subjected to loud noises by Rosen and Bergman, suffered spasms of their blood vessels...
...browsed in the doorway of a newsstand after working all morning in the college library. He was shot dead on the spot. A few steps farther up the street, Senior Thomas Karr, 24, was walking sleepily toward his apartment after staying up almost all night for a 10 a.m. exam when he dropped to the pavement, dying...
...love an exam," bubbles Elma Fox, a University of Kentucky student. "I want to find out what I know." Helen Ellner, a classmate, confesses that "I get so engrossed in class that I never know what time it is." Coed Isabel Cottingham concurs: "I adore this give-and-take with professors...