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Word: truants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marchers--including South Boston parents and their truant children--sang 'God Bless America' and carried signs stating their opposition to Boston's busing plan...

Author: By Christopher B. Daly, | Title: Busing Sparks New Protests | 10/5/1974 | See Source »

...mysterious defiance of it. This is all the older men have to teach. For all their tatoos, the Navy has them in a state of arrested development. They've been to Vietnam but they've children, lost in the world and hiding in the order of Navy life: playing truant and breaking rules in one of the only adult institutions that gives a damn if you fool around...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Join the Navy and See the World | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

...SIDEKICK on this job who seemed to have gotten his job by bearing the name of his great-uncle the ex-governor. We went together from house to house in a big white air-conditioned Galaxie--occasionally being mistaken for the truant or probation officer--and telling poor people about how they could buy a nice little brick house from the government for only as much a month as they were paying now for rent. (A split level, which required getting an extra room, was a little more...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Some Houses Down There | 2/27/1974 | See Source »

Juvenile Court. Noted documentarian Frederick Wiseman ("Hospital," "High School") presents a two-and-a-half hour "documentary mosaic" on America's juvenile court system. Filmed in Memphis, the cinema-verite excursion looks closely at the handling of individual cases including an 11-year-old truant being brought to justice. CH. 2. 8 p.m. B-W. 2 hrs. 30 min. May be pre-empted by Watergate hearings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 9/27/1973 | See Source »

...recalls, was preoccupied with girls whose bodies wouldn't quit probably because his own seemed to give up when he was 14. Sometimes he dreams of assuming authority - or flouting it. In high school, Allen tried to become a featherweight boxer, and spent many an afternoon fleeing the truant officer. Out of experience came a typical self-deprecatory gag. "I wanted to be an FBI man," Woody will moan. "But you have to be five-foot-seven and have 20/20 vision. Then I toyed with becoming a master criminal-but you have to be five-foot-seven and have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen: Rabbit Running | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

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