Word: skippingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO: In an auto service shop of this prosperous suburb (pop. 36,000) of Cleveland, Mechanic Ken Masshart, 35, ridiculed Watergate for months as just another political squabble. He even used to skip over newspaper stories about it. But Spiro Agnew's resignation convinced him that something was terribly wrong in Washington. He explains: "All of a sudden, I started reading about politics again; I got wrapped up in it." For the image of the country, he thinks that "Nixon should resign before impeachment, if it comes to that...
...will bother you, tell you what to do, or notice when you skip a class. Heaven forbid a professor or student telling you how to live your life. They are not saying grow up on your own, learn to be a man, but rather, come and join the ranks of gentlemen, it's so good I doubt you can resist for long...
...Students can sue and be sued. Colleges will be freer to take students to court in cases of vandalism or disruption without involving the parents as middlemen. But the schools are also more vulnerable to legal action by students protesting against professors who skip classes or grade arbitrarily, or administrators who close buildings as a result of demonstrations by other students. Says Patricia Rueckel, vice president for student development at Georgetown: "The fact that they can constantly bring us into small-claims court is kind of scary...
...these social realities are secondary matters. "...California concealed its sins and all but banished the tragic sense. Crimes remained unacknowledged or were sentimentalized, and, as if by common consent, responsibility was forgotten in the sunshine." Because its sins were not obsessive, California could shove them under the carpet and skip along...
John Ellis joined McConnell at 80, while captain Skip Barry shot...