Word: particualr
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After a while, I developed a strategy designed for disarmament. I would scout out each new face for insecurity blemishes. And I'd play up to that particualr lack of confidence in a seductive effort to waylay its defensive instinct. I would, in other words, convince them that I was unworthy of their attack, that I was harmless. At first this meant telling funny stories at the dinner table about the various fuck-ups in my private life: about being paralyzed with fear when a beautiful sailor tried to seduce me; about trying, bravely in the now or never spirit...
...fill the resultant vacancies Dean Hanford has been obliged to revise and make less stringent the old requirements for House membership, in particualr lowering the former scholastic standards for admission. Allowing Dropped Freshmen to apply for entrance into the Houses has been the most drastic form that the new rulings have taken...
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