Word: amissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first hint that something was amiss came last April, when harbor seals along the coast of northern Europe began showing symptoms of a mysterious viral infection. Before long, dead or dying seals were washing up on the shores of Britain, Holland and West Germany. To date, 11,000 seals have died, including an estimated 70% of the seal population in parts of the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts...
...month as the guest of Queen Elizabeth II. Having visited Saudi Arabia to press for the sale in 1986, Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was not about to fall in line with the U.S. in this case, as she has on other issues. She is determined that nothing go amiss with a deal that promises to create 50,000 British jobs...
...Monday, May 16, the plan broke down -- for the most banal of reasons. United and Merrill Lynch did not have enough funds in their accounts to cover outstanding checks, which started to bounce, alerting First Chicago officials that something was amiss. The bank traced the problem to Taylor and called in the FBI. Taylor named his coconspirators and agreed to make incriminating phone calls to Moore and the others that the FBI taped as evidence. Although Brown-Forman's funds were credited in Vienna, the money taken from United and Merrill Lynch was intercepted at Citibank before it left...
...first sign that something was seriously amiss came in 1966 when Wolfgang Muller, then 20, escaped from Colonia Dignidad for the third time and begged the West German embassy in Santiago not to send him back for fear he would be killed. Muller, who now lives in West Germany under a different name, claimed that Schafer had molested him when he was twelve. He told of regular beatings and the use of electroshock and narcotics by camp doctors, and described Schafer as a dictator who condones drug experiments and torture and enforces hard labor from sunup to sundown...
...months the computer intruder moved like an invisible man -- until one day Clifford Stoll saw the footprints. The frizzy-haired Stoll, 37, a systems manager at California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, knew something was amiss when one of the computers in his care revealed that an electronic trespasser was trying to use the lab's machines without providing a billing address. Suspecting the intruder might be a student prankster from the nearby University of California campus, Stoll launched a novel experiment. Instead of shutting out the interloper, he allowed him to roam at will through the system while carefully recording...