Word: truants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every boy's life-Jerry, who once had to be talked out of blowing up the Sabers with a hand grenade; Pluck, who smoked reefers ("When you are high you can look across the way, which is littered with garbage cans, and everything looks fine"); and Wilfred the truant ("If I could go regular-like for a week, then I'd go all the time, but I just can't go that week...
...four days last week, up to 20,000 of New York City's 212,000 high-school students deserted their classrooms for an unseemly orgy of picketing, riotous parading, catcalling and general defiance of the school board, Mayor O'Dwyer, and several hundred New York cops and truant officers. The only civic group that could conceivably have been pleased by all this were the demonstrators' teachers. And, in the circumstances, they were keeping their voices down...