Word: extras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judging from the attitude of these freshmen toward education, college administrators had better lock up the administration building extra-tight-or speed up greater student participation in university government. Almost half of the new collegians plan to take an active part in campus politics; a clear majority believe that students should have the power to affect all university decisions. More than 40% think that their schools have a duty to take official public positions on the nation's political and moral issues...
...patients; there have been only three refusals. The author now understands why. "To live on borrowed time," she writes, "to wait in vain for the doctors to make their rounds, lingering on from visiting hours to visiting hours, looking out of the window, hoping for a nurse with some extra time for a chat, this is the way many terminally ill patients pass their time. Is it then surprising when such a patient is intrigued by a strange visitor who wants to talk to her about her own feelings?" From these feelings, freely given, the seminar has been able...
...when the fighting unit undergoes a change of command. This evokes feelings of rejection and anger that can, and frequently do, engulf the new commander. Discipline plummets, and sometimes the departing officer may himself hasten the process by shucking his role as leader, accepting his troops as equals, granting extra privileges and even hinting that the next commander might be something of a martinet. Such crises can be averted, or at least ameliorated, if the departing officer is made aware of the problem and advised to tighten discipline and control before he leaves...
...medical college; Dr. T. Joseph Reeves, chief of medicine at the college and a renowned cardiologist; and Dr. Thomas W. Sheehy, formerly a medical adviser for the U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam, now director of MIST and professor of medicine at the college. They take on the extra duty without pay, have already dealt with scores of cases ranging from heart blocks to overdoses of pills...
When I was fourteen I lived in a converted railway carriage with my mum and stepfather. I earned fourteen bob a week doing a paper round, and I babysat for extra money. If fathers caught me alone in their houses they often tried to kiss...