Word: ingrownness
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...Lucifer with a Book" describes the thoughts and experiences of a young veteran during his first--and last--year as an instructor at The Academy Fortunately gifted with more than a little insight and maturity, Guy Hudson unsuccessfully bucks the sham and hypocrisy of the school's ingrown existence, causing a mild upheaval in the Faculty. He is all too glad to leave The Academy in June with his pregnant sweetheart (a teacher at the neighboring Girls' School...
...month sentence at the end of five months,* one month before he would have been eligible for parole. Outwardly, the only sign of Boss Curley's ordeal was a small strip of adhesive tape under his right eye, to keep him from irritating his ingrown eyelashes. His health? "I come back ten years younger," said Jim Curley...
...always loved father as immoderately as she has loathed mother, persuades brother to murder mother's lover. When mother hears of this event (from her son's cruel lips), she shoots herself. Her monstrously affectionate children then suffer a monstrous expiation. Demented by remorse and ingrown desire, the son shoots himself in order to join mother. Daughter determines to "live alone with the dead, and keep their secrets, and let them hound me, until the curse is paid out and the last Mannon...
...Governor, Darden had proposed tougher University admission standards; a curb on the "expensive, restricted and ingrown" fraternity houses; new, million-dollar dormitories and a cafeteria, to put a Charlottesville education within reach of many more "rank & file" Virginians. Last week President-Elect Darden held a three-hour peace talk with student leaders, to convince them that he was not proposing a fate worse than death. He assured them that he would not let Virginia's traditions get lost in his bigger & better University...
...Ingrown Heirs. As a self-sustaining satrapy, the Star grows its own bosses. Roy Roberts began as a carrier boy in Lawrence, was a campus correspondent at the University of Kansas (he was there with Alf Landon). He covered first state, then nation politics, got his news by getting friendly with the men who made it. "I never cared much for press conferences," says Roberts. "I always liked to get my stuff out the back door...