Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found it and took it outside in the streets to play. They had apparently been squabbling earlier with some neighborhood children. One of the boys waved it in a girl's face and said, "I'm going to shoot you, and I'm not going to miss." Then the three-year-old grasped the gun in both hands and pointed it at another child on the street, Jeffery Krauch, 6. The three-year-old's brother cocked the pistol. The three-year-old fired it into Jeffery's chest. Jeffery stood for an instant, then...
Ostentatious Show. So the policy advisers bought tickets on commercial flights to Atlanta (economy class) and, in an additional dose of Carter humility, boarded a chartered bus for the three-hour, 135-mile trip to the house owned by Carter's mother, Miss Lillian. On the way, they lunched on cold fried chicken; like everything except the plane tickets, the lunch was paid for by the Carter campaign committee, which was apparently making an ostentatious show of frugality. First out of the bus was former Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke, his rumpled seersucker jacket slung over his shoulder...
...speaks Shakespeare's language naturally and swiftly, trippingly on the tongue. She is at her best in a passage like the one where she describes to Orlando the earmarks of a man in love. But at times an unwelcome hard edge creeps into her voice. In addition, I miss the extraordinary radiance and ebullience an ideal Rosalind should convey--a task that would be easier amid less bleak surroundings...
Cole Porter write A Fine Romance [July 12]? Jerome Kern is turning in his grave, sighing Miss Fields regrets...
...effort is imperiled because two of the nation's most important shipbuilders no longer want to produce ships for the U.S. Navy under present contract conditions. Litton Industries, whose Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard is building radically new generations of gas-turbine-powered destroyers and big helicopter assault ships, has petitioned a federal court in Los Angeles for a ruling that in effect would permit the company to halt construction of the assault ships on Aug. 1. Similarly, the giant Newport News shipyard, a subsidiary of Tenneco, has asked a federal court for permission to stop work on a guided-missile...