Word: skips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...benefits to children of deceased, disabled or retired parents last summer, more than 150,000 high school seniors realized that unless they enrolled as full-time college students by May 1 they would not receive the benefits averaging $2,760 a year. One result: many students are trying to skip part of their senior year to get early admission to nearby community colleges or state universities...
...boasts, "The Iron Age comes ... A month ago, it was the Stone Age ... digging vegetables with wooden shovels and clobbering rats with flint axes. We're moving right along. It'll be 1832 in a few days! By the way, people, I'm planning to skip the 20th century altogether...
...this Disneyesque mess, but there's not much they can do. Nolie consistently underacts, while Winger tries too hard to give Suzy that special something which would enable her to rise above it. John Huston narrates with the wise-and-witty intonation of Father Christmas, and the audience snoozes. Skip this one, folks. It's cheaper to buy the crab...
Silk achieved a little more than just skating on to the hallowed ice. In the six games of his Beanpot career--Silk had to skip his senior year to play on the Olympic team--he connected for 12 points, a total which puts him in the top-15 all-time Beanpot scorers. Of course, playing on two tourney-winning teams isn't a bad dividend either...
...which have long since gone the way of the broom and dustpan. But the old LP has persisted, and every year it comes out with the tinsel and the ornaments. And everyone in the family sings along as Mel Torme croons, "Chest-NUHHHHHTs roasting on an open (skip) nose. Yuletide carols being hung by (skip) Eskimos...." And, frankly, we all go out of our minds listening to the damn thing over and over...