Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, Moore's aim was not too high. Astonishingly, her bullet whizzed harmlessly between a TV crew and agents, striking the wall of the hotel 5½ ft. above the sidewalk. But it had been deflected just enough to her left to miss Ford by about 5 ft. at roughly head level as he bent to get in his limousine. The deflection was caused by the swift reflexive action of Oliver Sipple...
Enter Dowson, a onetime R. A.F. pilot, Tupelo, Miss, disk jockey and Davis protege, whom Sir John last October promoted from deputy chief to chief executive. Dowson rapidly concluded he would never have real authority as long as Sir John was around. Finding himself unable to challenge Davis in a boardroom battle, he apparently decided to opt for a lucrative early retirement by taking on Sir John in a bedroom farce...
...experience in California involves perhaps the most overtly interventionist group of overseers in the country. Despite Smith's disclaimer, "bourgeois" theorists are correct in saying that faculties and administrations now exercise more day-to-day control over universities than they ever have. But both sides of the argument miss the point: trustees, intimately tied to big business interests, don't have to draw up university budgets, take an active role in hiring and firing faculty, and bend curriculum to their interests. Faculty members and administrators, integrated ideologically into the defense of the trustees' concerns, can be given relatively free reign...
...away, but despite my dreams and my intentions, I soon realized that I was all partied out. This was not Cambridge, this wasn't my home turf, and my doubts were reinforced nightly when I made collect phone calls back to Sue in Boston and she told me I miss you, come back home. Money was getting low, jobs were scarce, and I was lonely. I promised Sue I'd take the next bus back east. I didn...
...Sullivan Show rode out in March 1971-was under way. It lived up-and down-to expectations. Roone Arledge, the hard-driving Barnum of ABC Sports, who developed the latter-day vaudeville along with Cosell, had burbled, "We want people to feel, 'Boy, I better not miss this tonight because Lord knows what will happen.' " But Cosell, master of ceremonies, treated the show as another episode of N.F.L. Monday Night Football. "Look," he said, shrugging, "this is not a meeting between Rabin and Sadat with world peace being in the balance...