Word: mislaid
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...people who run the whole affair do their best to be prepared for such unscheduled events-the executive secretary, who does everything from tracking down mislaid children to re-introducing their parents, wouldn't dream of setting out for Essex without armloads of safety pins, suntan oil, and Kotex. But you can't foresee every contingency. Gosh, the unexpected is half the fun of reunions...
...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...