Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While forever warning their patients to shun unnecessary risks, doctors seem to jettison their own advice as soon as they take up flying. In 1964-65, reports the Federal Aviation Agency, 30 U.S. physician pilots died in crashes; in ten cases, the doctors' families died with them. As a result, flying doctors had a fatal-accident rate four times as high as the average for all other private pilots...
...quality of the applicants suffer. Draftees would still have to elect the Peace Corps over the army: the pay would be lower, the work harder, and the standards--with an increase in applicants--could be raised considerably. Moreover, the highly qualified body of college students, who now shun the Peace Corps for the greater security of graduate school, could now volunteer without fear of further obligation when they return to school...
...worst, the image that the church gave of God was that of a wonder worker who explained the world's mysteries and seemed to have somewhat more interest in punishing men than rewarding them. Life was a vale of tears, said the church; men were urged to shun the pleasure of life if they would serve God, and to avoid any false step or suffer everlasting punishment in hell. It did little to establish the credibility of this "God" that medieval theologians categorized his qualities as confidently as they spelled out different kinds of sin, and that churchmen spoke about...
...retain their coveted 2-S draft deferments-and Director Lewis B. Hershey made it sound easy. If they choose to take standard college qualification tests to be offered by Selective Service in May and June, undergraduates need only score 70 out of a possible 100. If they fail or shun the tests, freshmen must rank in the top half of the men in their class, sophomores in the top two-thirds, juniors in the top three-fourths. Graduate students must score 80 on the tests or have finished in the upper one-fourth of all of the full-time students...
...fact, most of the students interviewed felt that the Harvard community was more tolerant than most towards drugs, and only occasionally did they report peers who would shun them because they took drugs. One of the boys said that the most reactionary responses to his taking had come from Freshmen who "hadn't had time to acclimatize to the new morality...