Word: kinda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College to do a little studying one night, the first thing he did was snap back the cover boards on Kohler's The Mentality of Apes as far as they would go. What the hell-that was the way he felt. All churned up in his guts, but kinda fuzzy and helpless, too. Like a popgun without a cork. As a freshman, he had been an eager overachiever. Now he was cutting his favorite class because it was just too far to walk. The only thing he really hungered for was a sense of cool. Like his buddy, Chum...
...based on widespread use of contraceptives is nowhere near at hand. Some girls sleep with steady boy friends, circumspectly and not promiscuously. There are also the perennial pathetic girls who, as one boy explains it, "put out regularly, but they're either ugly or fat or. you know, kinda gross." Mostly, sex among teenagers is a joking game...
...still others said "Why do you ask?" (Frightened.) "Earl is not a place, It's a thing." "Is it a building here?" "Why, that's redundant." "Sorry. My history background is very weak." "What are you, some kinda nut?" "I don't think he lives in Cambridge." "There's no news today, huh?" "No, not off-hand...
...were kinda mean to Ethel...
...softball throwing, the students go back to class glowing with a sense of achievement. Says one 16-year-old: "We really did need this program. I mean, now we say to each other, 'How are you?' And the answer is 'Sore, but it's kinda...