Word: junior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrations brought the real world into perspective. I'm not sure that my brother (a Kirkland House junior) is really aware of what's happening in the world...
...adolescents are skeptical to some extent," says Ulmer, "and the line between skepticism and cynicism is a thin line." There is mounting evidence that many cadets in the junior class-if not in the corps as a whole-are becoming increasingly cynical about the honor code and system. Part of the reason is the code's extreme rigidity. Part is the growing feeling among some cadets that their fellow students on the Honor Committee are as sternly self-righteous-and occasionally as sadistic-as a Puritan elder in early Massachusetts. Says a high Pentagon official: "We have to moderate...
Blood dripped on scattered sheets of choir music. "I heard someone scream 'Oh my God' from the front of the bus," sobbed Kim Kenyon, a 16-year-old junior whose girl friend was killed in the seat beside him. Added Perry Martin, 18, the choir's chief tenor: "Everything was a tangle of weeping and moaning and of scattered arms and legs." The final toll: 29 dead, including Mrs. Estabrook, whose husband was preceding the bus in his car, and 25 injured, including Driver Evan Prothero...
They were the children of labor leaders, of policemen, of county officials and of doctors (including one whose teen-age son's heart, corneas and kidneys were used in transplant operations soon afterward). The boys and girls had gone through junior high school together. They had all performed together in Fiddler on the Roof earlier this year. Only three weeks from graduation, many of them had gone to the prom the previous Saturday. Now their friends dazedly shuffled through Yuba City High School, pausing disconsolately from time to time at the principal's window to read the daily...
...junior est employee named George comes onstage to demonstrate "the personality profile"-or how to experience people we have never met. George settles into a trance to experience a New Jersey housewife who is not in the group but is an acquaintance of Carol's, a sixtyish woman who is. Does the housewife like playing cards? "Yes," says George, clawing the air with both hands for inspiration. He sees a happy card game with a bowl of peanuts on the table. "No," says Carol, "she never plays cards." George gets about 80% of the questions wrong...