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Wordsearch 6

Using the clues listed below, fill in each blank in the following story with one of the new words you learned this week.

Trouble at Truman High

It was a quiet morning at Harry S Truman High School. ''Too quiet," Principal Edna Suarez remarked to her secretary. "It's just when things are this serene that I start to get an uneasy feeling."

Mrs. Suarez's sensitivity to life among 3,000 teenagers quickly proved to be accurate. The first evidence of trouble came with a phone call from the teacher in charge of the cafeteria who needed help to __________ a disturbance. When Mrs. Suarez arrived on the scene, much to her __________, students were pounding on their tables, throwing food on the lunchroom floor, and making a complete __________ of school regulations. It took the principal only a moment to __________ who the two ringleaders were and to summon them to her office.

Vincent, 16, and Elena, 15, admitted to having stirred up the protest. They gave as their reasons the poor quality of food served and the dirty environment. "It's like a pigsty down there," Elena declared, "and the food is fit only for animals!"

What they had done, Mrs. Suarez told them, was inexcusable, and she ticked off a list of reasons that made their conduct dangerous and subject to school discipline. "What you were trying to do," Mrs. Suarez explained, "might be

considered __________ by some but you could have come to me, alone or with a committee, to register your complaints. I would have investigated and, if there was merit to your charges, would have taken the necessary action. Now I'll have to ask you to bring your parents to see me on Monday and to stay home until then."

Vincent and Elena seemed to be chastened by Mrs. Suarez's lecture. However, on leaving her office, Elena told an assistant principal that in a similar incident on a television show she learned that direct, dramatic action usually gets quicker results than lengthy debate. He advised her to bring that question up in her social studies class when she returned from suspension.

Clues

4th Day

1st Day

3rd Day

1st Day

3rd Day

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7th Week

1st Day

New Words

sker′ mish

Much Ado About a Haircut

Perhaps you read about our school in the newspapers? We were one of the first to have a showdown on the topic of long hair for boys. Two honor students, Ron Harris and Len Chester, were sent to the principal by their French teacher, an implacable foe of nonconformists, who went into a paroxysm of anger when she spied the boys in the hall. At first it seemed like a simple case. The school would reprimand* the boys for their reprehensible appearance and order them to cut their hair or be suspended. But the boys' parents decided that the school had overstepped its jurisdiction; they took their case to the newspapers. What had started as a local skirmish now began to take on the appearance of a full-scale war.

Sample Sentences

Use the new words in the following sentences.

1.The detective was __________ in his search for the murder weapon.

2.Saying that it was beyond his __________, Judge Klein refused to rule on the case.

3.In a __________ of rage, the tenant stormed out of the landlord's office.

4.The precocious* boy enjoyed an intellectual __________ with his elders.

5.The brash* student was forced to apologize for her __________ conduct. Definitions

Match the new words with their meanings.

Today's Idiom

cause célèbrea famous law case or controversy

It was a minor dispute, but the ambitious lawyer sought to turn it into a cause célèbre.

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The Tempest Spills out of the Teapot

Once the newspapers got the story, the case of the longhairs became a cause célèbre.* Ron and Len were interviewed, seen on TV, and regarded by their fellow students as heroes. "These are not delinquents or hoods," one reporter wrote, "but clean-cut American boys who are being harassed by a monolithic school system." A caustic* editorial referred to the school's decision as arbitrary and inane.* A false story even circulated about the boys being rock-'n-roll performers whose indigent families needed their salaries.

Finally, the Civil Liberties Union jumped into the fray with a court order stipulating* that the principal be required to show cause why the boys should not be allowed to return to class.

Sample Sentences

Use the new words in the following sentences.

1.After the __________, the feuding families agreed to patch up their differences.

2.The __________ client was surprised when she was accosted* by her social worker in the elegant restaurant.

3.To my mind the decision was unreasonable and __________.

4.George Orwell's 1984 depicts a frightening, __________ government.

5.If anonymous telephone callers __________ you, the phone company will give you an unlisted number. Definitions

Match the new words with their meanings.

Today's Idiom

one swallow does not make a summerdon't jump to conclusions based on incomplete evidence "Sure, the Yankees won their opening game, but one swallow does not make a summer." Answers are on Page 307