Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certain terms, of course, may become quaint, but will always be irreplaceable. Pound cake will remain just that, no matter how many grams the ingredients weigh. A miss will never be as good as a kilometer; no Texan is likely to wear a 38-liter hat. In some cases, neither form of measurement matters much. The day that hell freezes over, whether it happens in Celsius (0°) or Fahrenheit (32°), it will still rate a TIME cover...
Concentrated Stimulus. For all that, Carter's plans have the backing of Washington's Democratic leadership and are likely to be passed by Congress with few changes shortly after the new President takes the oath of office. A good thing too: much of the criticism seems to miss the point - partly because Carter did a less-than-adequate job of explaining his plans. For example, many critics talk as if the $12 billion to $16 billion first-year stimulus would be spread over twelve months. In fact, as Carter did not make clear, it would be concentrated...
From there the Crimson could do no wrong. Twenty-footers went in with an that Coach Kleinfelder will miss, and loose balls invariably ended up in Crimson hands. The final minutes of the game were simply fast-break practice...
Winthrop grew vocally self-critical as his opponent caused him to force his shots. Winthrop also did not want to miss his ride to Milton. After losing his poise, Winthrop lost the next three games...
...that ever happened to the South. Although Lyndon Johnson's impassioned speech in favor of the bill is usually credited with securing passage of the Voting Rights Act, it was Hart, according to Clarence Mitchell of the NAACP, who played the critical role in persuading Sen. James Eastland (D-Miss.), the chairman of the Judiciary and a strong opponent of the bill, to report it to the full Senate which then passed it. "Phil Hart... was indispensable. Somehow he was able to lift the roadblocks...He was such an honest, such a fair man, that Eastland probably felt an obligation...