Word: wombat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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nigel, as readers of Down With Skool! (TIME, Sept. 20, 1954) are still apt to recall in their nightmares, is a sort of cross between Tom Brown and a wombat and looks like all the downtrodden weeds, wets, clots, new bugs, old lags, young ticks, cads, roters, and bulies of the British public school system swept into one messy pile. He alone, as Author Geoffrey Willans and Cartoonist Ronald Searle describe him, is quite enough to account for the current teacher shortage in England...