Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Better Business Bureau Manager James W. Stephens. "But the people who are sending them define as handicapped anyone with less than 20-20 vision." What to do if unwanted and unordered goods arrive? Return them to the post office marked "Refused." If the merchandise is opened and lost or mislaid, Stephens still advises playing it tough. Says he: "When you get a bill, send it back with a letter saying, 'My storage fee for unsolicited merchandise is $500 a day. When you pay my bill, I'll pay yours!' " It works, Stephens says...
Last week, while Mother wheeled and dealed, daughter spent her spare time in her bedroom listening to rock 'n' roll and contemplating a huge poster of her father. At times, Romina seems dazed by all the hoopla, as if she were trying to remember where she mislaid her childhood. Then, the little girl in her peeping through, she sighs: "I would like to play a fairy because it can make things happen, and it's pure and innocent and beautiful the way people basically...
...Shade. "Character is fate." The Heraclitean precept has been mislaid by a generation of moviemakers more concerned on the whole with their medium than with Man. In this resolutely ordinary yet oddly powerful little picture, a Czech director named Jiří (pronounced Yershee) Weiss, a British scriptwriter named David Mercer
...least-is Lost in Space (CBS), the story of a family named Robinson marooned on an unknown planet. (It must have been sheer torture for the boys to keep from calling it The Space Family Robinson.) Guy Williams, in silver suit minus his Zorro cloak, heads the mislaid clan. The amazing thing is that TV has never launched such a series into space before...
...like the reshaping of the planet "these things, no thank you, they are not for us." Soon afterward, the heroine of Poet Boris Pasternak's great novel was arrested by Soviet secret police "and probably died somewhere, forgotten as a nameless number on a list that afterwards got mislaid, in one of the concentration camps of the north." Lara's fictional fate was prophetic. In 1960, after Pasternak himself died, So viet secret police arrested Olga Ivinskaya, the handsome blonde poetess who had been Pasternak's great love, soul mate, literary agent and secretary -and his model...