Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Naturally the South stormed back in the second half with three touchdowns, but when it came time for the tie or the win, the South chose tie and then proceded to miss the extra point. And Jim Kubacki, out of position and all, was the hero...sort...
Despite the waves of tourists and newsmen who are washing over Plains (pop. 683) and providing brisk business for the Peanut Museum, the sandwich shop, and the new stores selling what Miss Lillian calls "Jimmy-things," the main pastime still seems to be memory-as it is in all villages, Southern or otherwise, where people lead lives of work and family. Stop most anyone you see-they're generally stoppable-and he or she will soon be spinning you a web of recollection to entertain you both. They tend to start with Carters, since that...
...mainly does-or did in that company-is listen with a blowtorch intensity which makes most other brands of human attention seem dazed or bored. (And Rosalynn his wife shares the trait-an interest almost animal in strength and necessity, though her brand seems to come from her mother, Miss Allie Smith: a quiet, impressive lady with the broad, handsome, watchful face she's given her daughter.) Some watchers that night-all of them non-Southern-found the gaze a little ominous, even predatory: Are we being sized up for future consumption...
...Jackson, Miss., F. (for Freddie) Ray Marshall, 48, got up at 3:30 a.m. to milk the cows. His line of work may have changed since-today he is an economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin-but not his long hours or his determination. When he reaches Washington in January as the Carter Administration's Secretary of Labor, it will be "with my feet running...
Born in Oak Grove, La., Marshall was sent at about the age of twelve to a Baptist orphanage in Jackson, Miss., along with his four younger brothers and sisters, after their mother died. At 15, he ran away and got a job making dentures in a dental factory. After a few months, he lied about his age to get into the Navy and served as a radioman in the Pacific during World...