Word: missed
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Father James Earl Sr. was a resourceful farmer and small businessman, who was strict with his children and devoted to community mores, including racial segregation. But Carter's mother was something else: one of those doughty and durable women that the South produces among both races. It was "Miss Lillian" (pronounced locally Lee-yun) who taught her son to aim for something higher than what Plains could offer. A registered nurse, she supported the family during the Depression when farm prices plummeted. Instead of letting her children talk at mealtimes, she urged them to read at the table. She treated...
After a Dartmouth miss, Booker put home an arching shot from the corner to give Harvard a 43-41 lead, making the final, hectic minutes possible...
...show begins in a straightforward satiric vein, using the vehicle of a "Miss or Mr. American Talent" pageant to mock American commercialism and the competitive ethic. When the slimy, selfindulgent M.C. introduces the six stereotypical contestants, all familiarly insipid, we remain anchored in the comfortable world of parody. With the song "An Atypical American Family," however, parody is replaced by a rude inversion of values; to the music of "Mame," a brother who pulls wings off flies and a sister who carries a onearmed doll confess their mutual hatred in starkly unfunny terms. A similarly violent mood underlies "The Hard...
...Well," said Browning, "you answered my earlier question, Miss Hearst, that it's sort of correct that you thought highly of him. Can you enlarge...
...Williams rattled off a skein of six first-half baskets without a miss, finishing with a 'Cliffe season high of 24 points, as the cagers smote Regis 75-22 last night...