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Word: skips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...learned to take advantage of it. For many, the extent of their forethought is making plans for the weekend, and even those are subject to change at the last minute. They get jobs, not necessarily to save for college but to buy a $400 leather jacket. So many kids skip their homework that most teachers stop assigning more than 15 minutes' worth: ask too much, push too hard, and the students will give up, drop out, become a menace to society. We have to strike a balance, the adults say. We have to be reasonable. We want them to enjoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Week In The Life Of A High School | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...groundbreaking look at the history of the "Dark Continent," hosted by Afro-American Studies Department Chair Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., will premier in the United States Monday on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), officials announced this week...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gates to Host Innovative New PBS Series on African History | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...easy to skip at this school...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: CRLS.: The Kids Next Door | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...sorry). And realize there is no need to see through everything externally--look at yourself. How were you as a child? Play-full? Do you embrace only the handed-down adult games now, the formalized convoluted expressions of drives that you used to express by yourself? Do you skip? Is there a place for unfallen sexual play in your life? Or just fucking? What would I have done 300 years ago for the equivalent shock tactic of a swear word? Why is free and unpredictable movement so threatening on subways? Should I mind when a toddler hurls itself...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Things Past | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...enough weddings to go to. But as much as my gut told me to skip this one, I just couldn't find a tactful way to turn down the invitation to my mother's wedding last month. Especially after I had gone to my father's wedding three years ago. After a divorce, parents get competitive for your attention that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Mother, the Bride | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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