Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope to find diamonds in the rough," he says. One day he was chatting amiably with the mother of a freshman named Billy Blair, when Mrs. Blair blurted out: "Billy's a fine player, but have you ever heard of Jim Walker?" Then, in Laurinburg, N.C., a prep school principal assured Mullaney: "Walker is a fine boy. Since he and Dexter Westbrook arrived, our team has had a 49-1 record...
...hitched my usual ride on Dan Calderwood's motorcycle and we drove to the Varsity Club, where the team eats together. Someone mentioned that people were thinking of having a prep rally the night before the game. Van Cunningham, the manager, thought it would be a good idea, but the team was against it. "We're just sacrificial cows," said Paul Barringer, and he spoke for a lot of us; the students who treat football players as a joke would treat the pep rally as a joke, and this week no one was in a joking mood...
...Frederick Buechner, 38, a talented proseur (A Long Day's Dying, The Return of Ansel Gibbs) who was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1958 and now serves as chaplain at Phillips Exeter Academy. In this precious pseudoreligious novel, the author sounds like an eager young padre at a prep-school bull session, the type who yanks off his collar, chug-a-lugs a yard of beer, belches a couple of four-letter words, and in general suggests that in the beginning was the dirty word...
...prep school that annually contributes five per cent of Harvard's freshman class may be sending some of its graduates to Radcliffe in a few years...
...artificial snow in Brookline, N.H., was insufficient for the jumping events. In the slalom John Hardcastle took the individual title for the freshmen, but the squad finished second to an Andover team that Friedman claims is "rated as one of the better prep school teams in the East this year...