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Word: flunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city limits, etc. The Census Bureau decided that there was no sense in hiring a man who might get lost before he got out of town. "This is no reflection on Nadler's intelligence," said a kindly bureau spokesman, who added that nearly half the applicants flunk the test. But the fact remained: the man who had taken the networks' quizmasters for more than a quarter of a million had failed when he tried for a lowly 13-buck payoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Off the Map | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

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