Word: flunks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What will I tell my parents when I flunk out of school...
...later learned that one Moscow University examiner had received a direct order to flunk him: "He won't be accepted anyway, and you'd just be fired." Alexei's story is not unusual. Anti-Semitic discrimination in university admissions is part of a deliberate policy of squeezing Jews out of the country's intellectual establishment. The Central Committee is said to have asked Mstislav Keldysh, then president of the Academy of Sciences, when its Jewish membership would fall to zero. It would take about 20 years to solve the "problem," he replied. I must note that Keldysh did not reduce...
...average, three fledgling agents in each class flunk out of Hogan's Alley. The standards are exacting. Says Pledger: "Anyone who shoots a fleeing felon in the back doesn't have what it takes...