Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sexual intercourse, that were not wanted and were protested" from 1973 until her graduation this spring. As a result, she claimed she "found it impossible to continue playing the flute and abandoned her study of the instrument, thus aborting her desired professional career." Another plaintiff, a 19-year-old junior, alleged she was subjected to repeated "sexual harassment" this spring every time she visited an English professor's office to discuss term papers. Anne Simon, a Yale Law School alumna who is representing the plaintiffs, estimates that 75 such incidents occur at Yale every semester...
...career as a Presbyterian minister in 1913 when his brother sent him some tracts from the Watch Tower Society. He soon decided that the Watch Tower offered the one true interpretation of the Bible. The next year he dropped out of the University of Cincinnati without completing his junior year; he saw no sense in remaining because the movement's founder, Charles Taze Russell, had announced Oct. 1, 1914, as the date for Christ's Second Coming. Franz recalls with a wisp of a smile: "We expected the end of this system of things, that...
Bannish, having switched roles for Game Two, now came up as a pinch hitter. The versatile junior promptly stroked a single to left, but strangely only one run scored. The next two batters failed to produce with the sacks filled, and three more went down the next inning. There was no bear hug after this one, a 5-4 loss, the squad's third in the Eastern League...
...territory's operating budget is a mere $25 million a year, and the French have never seen fit to provide a development budget. But they pay their own people extraordinarily well for serving two-year terms in the harsh climate, where daytime temperatures often top 115°. A junior sergeant serving in Djibouti can make nearly $20,000 a year, up to four times what he might earn in France. "They come here to serve their time, make their pile for a house or plot of ground back home, and then leave with it," says a British shipping agent...
Soweto's Children have come to rule the township with a mixture of brutality and bold authority that both fascinates and frightens their elders. These junior enforcers have capitalized on their legacy as the heirs of the martyred youths who led last June's upheaval, and on a general sense of despair and futility within the urban community. "We may still be children," one of their leaders says, "but politically we have been through very much." The Children are now seeing to it that almost everyone else in Soweto follows their lead...