Word: amissions
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...something went amiss, and the Feds weren't saying what. Finally, early this month, Nebbia was dispatched to the U.S. to smooth out the trouble and get the huge bundle of heroin into circulation tout de suite. Desist came along on a different plane. The trio met in New York and went to Columbus, where Le Franc and Nebbia planned to take delivery on the long-overdue shipment. U.S. narcotics agents, who had been tipped off about the scheme, shadowed them all the way. They had hardly reached Columbus before they realized they were being followed, and hightailed...
When a team like Brown can score 27 points against Princeton and 21 points against Cornell and still have a 1-6 record for the season, there must be something amiss. It's the defense...
...something and tell you the whole man." Even Mary Cheever subscribes to the theory that her husband is not as other men. She recounts with some awe the story of how John, having completed a deeply painful story about his older brother Fred, became convinced that something was amiss with him in real life, rose from bed, drove through the night for three hours, and indeed found his brother in Connecticut helpless, alone and in dire medical straits...
...ship's cinema, where Bob Hope was cavorting on the screen with Anita Ekberg in Call Me Bwana, the audience at first thought that the ringing bells were part of the film's plot. But the smell of smoke soon convinced them that something was amiss. Other passengers who had gone to bed early were not yet fully aware of the danger. No fire instructions were issued over the loudspeaker, and the alarm bells stopped ringing so quickly that many people thought it was only a drill...
Into One Basket. The liberal dissatisfaction is based largely on the belief that the Administration has tied practically its entire economic program to a tax cut as its solution to all that is amiss in the economy. The Administration's theory is that the way to get at U.S. unemployment, which stays at a persistently high figure (5.7%), is to put more money in the consumer's pocket to increase demand and more in the corporation's coffers to encourage investment in plant and equipment, which in turn creates new jobs...