Word: missed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fullness of the afternoon, the sweetness of evening, the mysteriousness of night, with equal joy and wisdom. Perhaps that is why you hear singing everywhere, fine music that fades away into space as if it were spontaneously generated." Coming back to the outside world from Tibet, travelers miss the serenity and peace, the brimful feeling of being at one with nature and the universe, the unfailing courtesy of Tibetans, and their pious avoidance of cruelty to any living thing...
...night before, she was still plain Miss Shoda, but from the moment her mother called her at 5 the next morning, she was already "Your Highness." "Take care of yourself," said a relative who had come to see her off, "when you go over there." A little after 6 a.m.. her eyes blinking back the tears, Michiko Shoda, 24, bowed stiffly to her parents, entered the antique maroon Mercedes-Benz sent by the palace, and was off to begin her life "over there" as the first commoner in 2,600 years to wed a future Emperor of Japan...
...swung open the door, the girl reached into her handbag and pulled out a Smith & Wesson .38. Holding it with both hands ("I was afraid I would miss," she explained later), she opened fire. Last week, on trial for murder in Naples, she defiantly declared: "I would do it again!" With that, the whole courtroom burst into cheers...
...Miss Rovegliano." Little Doll first met Big Pasquale when, as a buxom peasant girl of 19, she won a beauty contest and became "Miss Rovegliano." They got along fine together until Big Pasquale ran afoul of an old friend, tough-talking Tony Esposito. There had been bad blood between the two men ever since Big Pasquale did time for hitting a man with a monkey wrench. When he got out of jail, he found that Tony had taken over the business...
...central pair of young lovers--"poor little rich girl" Polly (Alice Therese Burns) and rich little messenger boy Tony (Pare Lorentz, Jr.)--also left more than a little to be desired. Miss Burns, who joined the company just two weeks ago, was sweet but not sufficiently at ease, and her singing voice, while pretty, was sometimes lost in the accompaniment. Mr. Lorentz's voice suffered no such indignity, and was among the best on stage, but his acting was otherwise awkward...