Word: straight-a
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...high school guidance counselor was talking about course selection to a junior with a straight-A record. "But certainly you don't want to carry more than three academic subjects your senior year?" she said. "You'll want to devote plenty of time to your school's activities...
...straight-A student at St. Helena's parochial high school. Bill went into training about a month ago. Though he hated to take time off from his stamp collecting and reading ("everything from match covers to encyclopedias," says his mother), he kept at his workouts. He pored over lists prepared by his teachers. At night, as he ate his bedtime snack, his mother would fire words at him while he struggled sleepily to spell them. The long preparation eventually paid off: last week Bill landed in Washington, D.C. for the finals...
...least a partial substitute for sight. "One thing that some blind persons ... do is to withdraw within themselves. I don't agree with this," he decided. Instead, he dug in hard at school work and activities; in his senior year at Reno (Nev.) high school he made a straight-A record and was elected president of his class...