Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also present is Miss York's grandfather, played by Ray Milland, who chomps on stogies and has a good time acting gruff as the boss of the imperiled gold mine...
...denies any attachment to his fiancée's fortune, unofficially estimated at $2.5 million. "I must say it crossed my mind once in a while," he says, "but that isn't why I am marrying her." He does confess to borrowing $120 from Miss Fitler for her engagement ring. Despite the protests of her financial advisers, Wilson plans to make his fiancee a December bride, then leave for a three-month honeymoon cruise. "I think the age difference is unimportant," said Miss Fitler last week, adding, "it'll be pleasant and interesting to have...
...American firms often miss out on big Soviet sales for reasons that the omnibus U.S. trade bill would not touch. General Motors has just turned down an offer to build a truck plant in Siberia because the Soviets refused to grant G.M. any role in sales or service of the vehicles to be made there. IBM cannot get Washington clearance to sell the firm's system 370 computer to the Russians because the Pentagon fears that the computers might be used by the Soviets for military purposes...
Sissela Bok, handing out slightly stale Tootsie Roll Pops, smiled apologetically and explained that though her husband "tries never to miss a Halloween," he had been tied up at a dinner meeting...
...them away from the regular courses, the dull routine of scheduled periods of reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling, etc. Essentially, he exploits that institutional tedium without ever questioning it. His creative geniuses would probably not have done so well if, in sitting at the same desk all day, every day, Miss Blunt would ask them to take out their pencils and paper and from 11:45 to 12:00 (right before lunch when they're all dying to go out and play) write a poem...