Word: rackingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bounced out. In every case, their grades make sense, as a measure of innate ability, cleverness, or writing skill. A bad mark is a slap in the face. If they are in A-1 condition on exam day, or hit on a really neat trick, they can pretty certainly rack up. They can tell whether they have pulled it off from the moment they finish writing. When a student Scoffs and succeeds, like Hud, the A's are flourished as proof of his innate superiority; when a student Scoffs and fails, he becomes the town...
...this seems to help: he has built Maremont's sales from $30 million in 1959 to $122 million last year. Last week he capped a five-year diversification program by buying the Cal-Val Research & Development Corp., a California producer of giant shock absorbers and bomb-rack parts for the Air Force...
...million strong, has quadrupled in 30 years. But even second-generation city dwellers seem restless, disconnected from their environment and one another. Amid jostling, unsmiling crowds on the streets, in bookstores where the buyer cannot browse, in restaurants where the customer is as insignificant as a hat rack, life in the capital has a disordered, rough-edged, strangely impersonal quality...
...junior common rooms, not one as in most of the old Houses. One should be the traditional combination of magazine-rack and lounge. The other should be suitable for House plays, concerts, lectures, readings, and seminars. The House should contain at least one seminar room and more practice rooms than most Houses now offer...
...young man browsed throuh the rack of dresses and held up one that caught...