Word: scarpering
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...last week not only the lady magistrate but most everyone else in town had changed their minds about Jory's experiment. Living as equals with equal freedom, the Borstal boys got along so well with their Oxford contemporaries that not a single one tried to "scarper" (run away). The villagers even took them on in cricket matches and invited them to tea. Among their hosts was the objecting lady magistrate herself, who last week took a bunch of the boys off on a sightseeing tour of some local Roman ruins. Concluded Albert Clarke, a retired police superintendent and unofficial...