Word: hims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For example, his classmates had never seen a certain Yale undergraduate naked, so George W. Bush took it upon himself to change that. In a show of dedication, Bush camped out in front of the young man's shower and waited for him to emerge.
One hour passed. Two hours passed. Bush continued to wait. And after three hours, the joke was on him: his prey stepped out of the shower fully clothed.
"I wouldn't characterize him as a scholar," Chauncey says, "but that's not a time when scholarship was highest on people's agendas."
His SAT scores--566 verbal and 640 math--were certainly good enough to merit admission to Yale even without his father's weight behind him, Chauncey says.
"If you saw him walking down the street, you wouldn't have had a clue that his father was a congressman or that he went to prep school," Deeter says. "He had a real strong identification with growing up in Texas."