Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grade School Mentality...
Forman's involvement with the sport dates back to eighth grade, when she managed her town's high school volleyball team. All the excitement generated on the court inspired her to try out for the team--so the following summer, she took up volleyball...
Attending the regatta has been something I have looked forward to each fall, ever since 10th grade...
...pace that might exhaust less energetic souls. In addition to taking courses, the 4-ft. 9-in. sprite will continue her commercial endorsements and hopes to be an NBC commentator at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. "I had to stop my real education in the tenth grade," says Retton of her decision. She didn't want to look back later and "wish I went to college." Her first English paper was on her coach Bela Karolyi. "It was supposed to be descriptive, and I know him very well," explains Retton. "I got good comments on it." That doesn...
...read them more than we read James Joyce." The author cherishes few illusions. He likes to be compared with "Jack London, who said, in effect, 'I'm not much of a writer but I'm one hell of an elaborator.' That's me." King barely gives himself a passing grade in freshness: "I've had about three original ideas in my life. The rest of them were bounces. I sense the limitations of where my talents are." Some of this sudden vote of no confidence may come from the realization that a new talent is howling at the door...