Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stream of commuters who daily turn Interstate 95 into what Washingtonians sometimes grumpily refer to as "the world's longest parking lot." Preceded by a police car and trailed by four other vehicles, including a Secret Service station wagon and a press van, his limousine was hard to miss. Many motorists waved a cheerful if somewhat bemused good-morning as the Chief Executive, immersed in his morning newspapers, sailed past them in the lane reserved for buses and car pools. Gone was the public hostility of yesterday as Nixon's presidency foundered; now there was a new President...
...They tried everything else. Tried shooting me, starving me and breaking me, and they missed. Now they're trying this." Thus Charles Evers, 51, mayor of tiny (pop. 1,725) Fayette, Miss., attempted to explain his indictment last week by a federal grand jury in Jackson on charges of evading more than $53,000 in federal income taxes over a three-year period. According to the indictment, Evers and his second wife Nannie Laura, from whom he was divorced last June, claimed a taxable income of only $20,219 for 1968-70 and paid federal taxes of only...
...been for so many of her predecessors, the role of First Lady was far more of a burden for her than a glory. When asked what she had given up when she moved into the White House, she replied simply but eloquently: "My privacy." What did she miss most? She repeated: "My privacy...
Aiding him is a mechanic-pal named Deke (Adam Roarke), a barely reformed rummy who could go round the bend any minute. Only a girl is required to round out this formula, and it must be said of Susan George that she rounds it out very nicely indeed. Miss George makes something of a specialty of playing pouty jailbait (recall Straw Dogs), and she shows spunk-among other things-as she runs about in tight jeans and skimpy halters...
...monologues that only rarely intersect, made up of short-circuited sentences, non-sequiturs and repetitions. The special idiom of the absurdist play demands from its actors a particular sensitivity to the purely aural qualities of speech as well as split-second timing and O'Brien never lets his cast miss a beat...