Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General MacArthur, 20 Congressmen resolved to go along with the troops as a committee. Then they read the fine print of their own resolution: they had agreed to go as combat infantrymen. Nobody backed out, but, a Congressional skeptic scoffed: "Half of them will surely flunk the physical exams...
...training was the most rugged and exacting that any peacetime U.S. outfit got. Explained one Marine officer: "A kid reports for boot camp and we challenge the s.o.b., we dare him to try and be a Marine. We give him so much of that in boot camp-and even flunk some of them out-that when he gets out, he's the proudest damn guy in the world, because he can call himself a United States Marine. He's nothing but a damn private but you'd think he's just made colonel...
...Director Candler Cobb growled menacingly about calling in the FBI, then quieted down as newspapers discovered that many of his delinquents were already in the service (one had just left for the Pacific). Cases of actual malingering were few: a handful of inductees in Virginia were caught trying to flunk intelligence tests; in Washington, a 19-year-old told the judge he had stolen a car because the draft wouldn't take anyone convicted of a felony. Most of the grousing was good-natured. Sample: in Los Angeles, a gag was going the rounds that many young men were...
...even more illogical to flunk girls who have missed some gym classes or failed to make up cuts because of sickness or injury. Yet there are several cases of girls who repeated one or more entire quarters of gym because they spent the wrong days in the Radcliffe Health Center. A few bad breaks can keep a girl on the playing-fields till she gets her diploma...