Word: homework
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Marsh did his best to turn in papers and finish assignments in high school, but minor technicalities like calculus homework couldn’t stifle his blossoming circus career...
...Whatever the genes that produced him, Ted radiated a comic precocity. For the high school newspaper he wrote parodies of poems and contributed humorous drawings. At Dartmouth he stretched the limits of homework, writing a "book report" of the Boston & Maine Railroad timetable as if it were a modern novel: "Chapter 18 is word for word exactly the same as Chapter 17, only it is run backwards." Ted joined the campus humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern, where he became editor-in-chief, until removed as punishment for the drinking incident. (Prohibition was in force, not only making Ted's spree...
...home to live with one of her Mum's friends. Previously outgoing, she became increasingly withdrawn and diffident as she struggled with feelings of guilt and confusion. Steered toward Barrett by the family's G.P., Maddison thrived in the friends program. One afternoon last week she sat doing her homework at a desk at Pathways, where her mother, Vikki, works at the front desk. Now 11, Maddison explained how she'd just auditioned at a big dance school. It had been nerve-racking, she said, having to perform ballet and a jazz routine in front of the examiners and other...
...late as we like or drink too much or hook up with each other without anyone’s noticing, much less caring. For the first time, we can spend hours on extracurricular activities without anyone’s asking us if we’ve done our homework, or if we’ve eaten dinner or if we oughtn’t to go to bed. For the first time, no one is preventing us from doing things to excess...
Normally the counselors would be doing any number of things from homework to movies to board games to Instant Messenger. Sometimes, they sit and watch the sky late at night. “We have these little glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling,” jokes Fletcher. “We turn out the lights and stare at the stars. It’s pretty romantic.” Part of the night usually involves sleeping, which can be interrupted at any moment. “I have a lot of weird dreams when I sleep here...