Word: flunking
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...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...
...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...