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Word: misse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Higby, Chief of Staff Alexander Haig and Secretary Woods. She clung to her story that she may have accidentally erased "four to five minutes" of the tape during a phone call but not the entire segment. After hinting that he was not convinced by her testimony, Sirica urged Miss Woods to "tell everything you know." She responded: "If I could offer any idea, any proof, any knowledge, of how the 18-minute gap happened, there is no one on earth who would rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CRISIS: Another Week of Strain | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

Contrary to prior reports that captain Tony Jenkins would miss last night's game to attend a meeting of Rhodes Scholarship nominees in Chicago, the 6ft. 8 in. senior did play, although he scored only six points...

Author: By Bruce Cole, | Title: Boston College Cagers Defeat Harvard, 68-65 | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

Listening to Bans's Adam is like hearing music because he varies accents on syllables--sometimes you miss what he's saying because the cadence is so interesting. It's nitpicking to say that this style was gimmicky compared to Eve's, which didn't have to vary the stress. There was an instinctive feeling for dynamics and speed variation that didn't need to tamper with the natural rhythm of the language...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Beautiful Monotony | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

...commemerate the symbolic significance of the Tea party without acknowledging the significance of the commitment to violence is to miss the point altogether. Boston did not win its "Cradle of Liberty" name because of a special intellectual quality of its leaders but because of a special leaders were willing to resort to violence under conditions they thought to be oppressive. The American Revolution began in Boston because Samuel Adams and the South End Mob were the first to understand Tom Paine's admonition, "Moderation in principle is always a vice...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Celebrating the Revolutionary Party | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

Just for a moment, imagine that UCLA's Bill Walton wanted to miss a game for a scholarship interview when the Bruins were slated to play Maryland. And then what if he might not be back for the North Carolina State game the next evening? What would the Bruins' officials say? Only at Harvard...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Crimson Cagers to Face B.C. Tonight | 12/14/1973 | See Source »

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