Word: amissed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World War II siege of Leningrad. Last February, Biggs' weekly stock-market analysis included a quote from British Philosopher John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: "He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss...
...women's studies means, or of what could possibly be lacking in a college education which almost completely ignores both the role of women in the world and the basic fact that men and women experience the world in different ways, is more than enough proof that something is amiss here in the hallowed halls...
Drawing on years of experience in monitoring the decline of Brezhnev, Kremlin watchers were quick to pick up telltale clues that something might be amiss with Andropov. During his first four months in office, the onetime KGB chief has lost weight. He has kept to a rigorous daily schedule, but after meeting with a delegation from Mozambique on March 2, he seemed to adopt an even lower profile than usual. Curiosity grew when TASS failed to print a summary of the weekly meeting of the ruling Politburo, as has been the custom recently, a possible indication that the gathering...
Equally terrifying is the behavior of some IDF officers once the Phalangists had gone into the camps. Just hours after the attack began. Brig Gen. Amos Yaron, the Israeli division commander in Beirut, was informed by one of his men that something was amiss. He did nothing. Two hours later, a Phalangist commander briefed a group of Israelis, including Yaron, that 300 people had been killed. Yaron simply warned the commander to cease such actions and left it at that. The massacre continued for two more days before the IDF put a stop...
...greater matter of concern. So was the fact that Dr. Warren E. C. Walker, director of UHS, and Dr. Kenneth J. Ryan, head of gynecology and obstetrics at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital--where the disputed operations took place--say they are now satisfied that nothing is amiss...