Word: flunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's a scam people would have cooperated with, but you had to work so hard to flunk out," said Kenneth M. Glazier '69, who was chair of the student-faculty advisory council. "If all you were trying to do was stay in College, there were always plenty of courses you could take to do that...
...Tommy was also a father figure for many students. He told The Crimson in 1985 that he often advised undergraduate customers, "Don't waste your money on the pinball machines--study for your exams. I've seen plenty of guys flunk...
...while the car idles, accelerates and brakes. Then it runs the material through computerized equipment so sensitive that millions of cars now capable of passing inspection are likely to fail. And not just old smokies: the EPA estimates that as many as a third of recent-model cars will flunk, instead of the current...
There is still a moral basis for intervention, and the U.N. dare not flunk a test case of its ability to cope with the ethnic wars that increasingly loom as the greatest threat to world peace. So far, however, public opinion in the U.S. and Western Europe has not seen any strategic or humanitarian interests at sufficient risk to justify the sacrifice of one soldier's life. Even a carefully planned intervention that matches adequate force to clear and achievable political aims may not change that opinion. A slapdash expedition for unclear ends would have no chance...
...author had to endure that most mannered of academic dons, Lord David Cecil. One sprightly chapter contains a mercilessly comic imitation of a lisping Cecil pointlessly beginning a lecture. ("When we say a man looks like a poet . . . dough mean . . . looks like Chauthah?") Cecil had the ill grace to flunk Amis for his B. Litt. thesis, but the author uncharacteristically lets bygones be. Perhaps it's too hard to stay angry with someone so wholly and genuinely eccentric. It was, after all, one of Lord David's sons who, when asked what he planned to be when he grew...