Word: hookey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Citystep students passed their exam with flying colors as they acted out a day in the life of a 10-year-old playing hookey from school. Weaving in and out of an oversized erector set for the stage, the kids and their teachers danced their interpretations of events from a city life, ranging from a gang fight to trying on a new pair of shoes...
Back--Kelly Gutely, Sr. WMPL (Hancock, Michigan) NCAA Hookey Poll (as selected by the Coaches) thru Dec. 6 1. Minnesota-Duluth (14-3-1) (6) 92 2. Minnesota (13-4-1) (3) 86 3. Bowling Green (11-3-2) (1) 79 4. Michigan State (13-3-0) 61 5. Winconsin (10-6-2) 46 6. Clarkson (7-0-1) 45 7. Providence (13-3-0) 44 8. North Dakota (10-8-0) 28 9. Michigan Tech (9-7-0) 28 10. New Hampshire...
...debt to the loansharks and waiting for his number to come in. Enid is supporting the family by some unspecified means and worrying about her philandering husband and her drop-out kid. Steve, an incipient delinquent, steals his father's pocket change to gamble with the boys, plays hookey and perhaps commits arson. Steve will end up like his father, on the edge of the rackets, looking over his shoulder for the cops and the robbers. His brother Paul is harder to place; neither we nor anyone else knows where he is going. Though most of the plot concerns...