Word: flunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flunk Out. South Boston High students who do want a higher education often run into serious trouble. Four years ago, Diana McDonough graduated from the school as an honor student; she received straight A's in the advanced college-prep course. Then she entered the University of Massachusetts and flunked out in her first year. "I realized I couldn't read, write, or even speak English well," she says. "I couldn't believe how smart the other kids were." McDonough, 21, now works as a secretary...
...they tell me to come back in a week and so I come back and sit in this empty classroom with the doors locked for six straight hours staring at that stupid question trying to figure out if maybe I'd gone crazy, zoned out. So they flunk me, but by that time I just couldn't see any point...
...recently told an audience of law students: "We are not a trade association. We are not a union. We are out to improve justice and the administration of society. If you don't intend to work to improve the quality of justice, then I hope that you flunk your exams...
...zoology and chemistry finals in his sleep. But in The Interpretation of Dreams, he noted a comforting aspect of the nagging nightmares: they seem to be experienced only by people who pass their exams, never by those who fail. If Freud was right, one consolation for college students who flunk today is that they will be spared recurring dreams of their failure tomorrow...
...wish you would flunk," she screams. "There might be some hope for you." He doesn't flunk. He gets As. They make...