Word: wonk
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...afternoon progresses and classes end more students flock to the river, and Harvard beach looks more and more like Fort Lauderdale on College Weekend. And the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly, from wonk to human being, has commenced...
...broke out. One of the hockey players, a monster from South Boston who had really wanted to be a doctor but found it interfered with his slap shot, carried a particularly heavy load home from Father's Six one night and stopped in front of Carlo's door. "Fuckin' wonk, I'm gonna major in psychology now, so there," he announced. The opening salvo fired, he and everyone else whiled away the next four months by greeting Carlo with a familiar, but unusually inspired, assortment of applie-pie beds, shaving-cream beds, cold-pizza beds, and all the other ingenious...
...This was simply a wonk race, like everything else at Harvard--and this time I just got out-wonked," Michael D. Kendall '79 said as he took his place at the end of the line...
This game of war, affectionately known to the computer at Star Drek, is waged between a computer wonk and the unfriendly Klingon and Romulan spaceships, which appear on the terminal screen. The thrill of firing phasers, speeding through space at warp 5, annihilating the enemy with torpedos released by pressing the asterisk on the terminal keyboard and the challenge of perfecting a technique that allows one to destroy enough alien ships before the computer blasts your own ship to pieces have brought Star Trek top popularity among the 18 game programs available in the computer room. "You should...
...were apprehensive when they scored so quickly," head coach Bruce Munro said yesterday. "It set us back," he added. "We played a good team and they didn't wonk us by any means...