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...Caveat Wonk...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: Med School Admission: Pitfalls and Myths | 2/3/1965 | See Source »

Exactly what the term "wonk" signifies, of course varies with who uses the word; it can denote anything from all those who got a better grade on the last hour exam than the speaker to a bonafide anal compulsive bookworm. Generally speaking, the term applies to a sort of drab toiler of limited cosmic vision, whose main concern in life is his academic grade average...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, | Title: Med School Admission: Pitfalls and Myths | 2/3/1965 | See Source »

...Wonk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eisenman Permitted To Re-enter Marshal Race | 1/20/1965 | See Source »

...Sano cigarettes is imminent. But where do you get the stuff? Leavitt & Peirce has never heard of it. (Scene in Waldorf Cafeteria: TOWNIE: Hey wonk, you want to go in with me on a real good thing? WONK: What's the deal? TOWNIE: We can get half a pound of Sano for only seventy-five. WONK: Yow, where?! TOWNIE: You front me the bread and I'll go get it. WONK: Now wait a minute, how do I know you won't burn me? TOWNIE: Well, like, I can't bring you up there, because the cat I'm scoring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pot vs. Sano | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...Archie will probably be out for blood today against Harvard, and being a classical-type scholar as well as a science wonk, he'll probably be aiming for Harvard's soft underbelly, pass defense...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Archie Roberts, Columbia To Challenge Crimson Today | 10/10/1964 | See Source »

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