Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many people thought it was just as well Jody did not go into the service. Says his mother: "I realize now that military life would have sent him up the wall. He's always been such a cluttered person. He constantly topped the list of those paying for lost library books." Powell learned to joke about his academy expulsion. "After getting kicked out for cheating," he says, "politics seemed like the next best thing...
...small groups of believers who meet to talk or pray without official approval. Some people have been penalized merely for eating dinner together after church. Earlier this year one group was fined for singing Baptist hymns at home, another for being in a room with Bible verses on the wall that were deemed "contrary to the rules of decency...
...walked up to a few women and asked about their school, where they were from, why they were there. He was genuinely curious, and he seemed so confused that most women talked to him freely. He was hardly a threat. Walter, standing against the wall, did not understand why Tom was doing so well. But Tom had no ulterior motives. As soon as he had found out all he wanted from one woman he moved on and talked to another. A few trusted him quite far, because he seemed so harmless. They told him they did not like getting...
Walter still stood silently against the wall. There were evidently limits to the name's magic. Tom and Mike got him on their...
...notices saying in big letters, "HARVARD PARTY," with the time and place underneath. He posted them at three different colleges for women. With the bait cast he eagerly anticipated the big night. The night of the party he put on his best Harvard rugby shirt and stood against a wall by the party's entrance. He stood there for a long time after the party had started. Tom came by after a while and Walter asked jokingly, but really wanting to know, "Seen any cows yet?" Tom laughed. He thought it was funny to call women from women's colleges...