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Monday
Topic of the week: TRAVEL
THOUGHTS ON PASSPORTS
"I was well acquainted with the gag that if you looked like your
passport picture, you needed a trip. I was unprepared for the preponderance
of thuglike pictures which I found in the course of processing passports."
~ Frances G. Knight, director, U.S. Passport
Office, ruling that it is all right to smile in passport photos
VOCABULARY
* to be acquainted (with someone/something): to know; to be familiar
with
* gag: a practical joke or hoax (an act intended to deceive or
trick)
* preponderance: superiority in number
* thuglike: like a ruffian or hoodlum (a violent lawless person)
* in the course of (doing something): during
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