Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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English-speaking Americans, however, were more than borrowers and corrupters. As the nation grew, the language grew too-adding pull up stakes and pony express, wistaria and widow's walk, freshman and flunk, sideburns (the cheek whiskers worn by Union Army General Ambrose Burnside) and bloomers (the billowing trousers worn by Feminist Amelia Bloomer). An erudite U.S. missionary named T. S. Savage first named the gorilla. His source: the Greek translation of the word that Hanno of Carthage used to describe the hostile and hairy creatures he met on his travels...
...rather flunk my Wassermann test Than read a poem by Edgar A. Guest...
...preface to his Complete Poems Sandburg says: ". . . I went to West Point . . . for two weeks-returning home after passing in spelling, geography, history, failing in arithmetic and grammar . . ." The Register does not list candidates who flunk their entrance exams...
...held up a test booklet and waved it. "Most of you guys go to Harvard, and you'll probably find this pretty easy. Some of you may get a 100. But if any of you guys are smart enough to think you can get out by flunking the test you're wrong. We know how much you know, and even if you flunk it you pass." It was a forty-minute test, with simple two pints plus four pints arithmetic problems and the flexible figures of spatial relations. The sergeants, corrected the test immediately. The group average seemed...
...recalled that a similar percent used to flunk each year before the war. But in recent years, he stated, an effort has been made to give veterans a break...