Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nazi Germany there was a man named Franz Hindler, who all by himself originated the theory and practice of genocide. Let us further suppose that after the war Herr Hindler disappears from Europe and turns up in a sleepy Connecticut town, where he teaches German history at a fashionable prep school and marries the daughter of a United States Supreme Court Justice. Finally, let us imagine that a relentless War Crimes detective traces Hindler to the town, identifies him by his passion for tinkering with clocks, and then waits around examining antiques for a few weeks while the fugitive kills...
...fifth form was due to fall out for cadet training (a period that Christopher particularly disliked), Headmaster Miller got the call. "This is Christopher's father," said a gruff voice over the phone. 'My lad has had the good fortune to be left Marlborough College, the prep school at Mill Hill. He would like to go over and have a look at the place. Is that all right with you?" So Christopher had his look, and when he got back to Forest at tea time, the whole student body began buzzing with the glorious tales he told...
...Yale, Howe estimated, "It cost $20 every time someone decides to send in an application. We can't afford to take on the whole burden and have got to ask the applicant to share half the burden." Yale, with a 60-40 ratio of prep school students to high school students, has been noted as the strongest advocate of the plan...
...Brooklyn, a football game between Far Rockaway High School and St. Francis Prep broke up in a savage free-for-all. Some 150 spectators joined in and five players were casualties, two of them hospitalized. Far Rockaway's players, although they won 26-19, suffered further injury: three teen-age girls sneaked into their locker room, put the team's street clothes in the shower. Far Rockaway's players limped home in their uniforms, each carrying his bundle of wet clothes...
...prep. Addicted to a drug...