Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When blonde Marjorie Wallace, 20, of Indiana became the first American to win the "Miss World" title last November, she pledged to remain single for a year and agreed to tour the world promoting the virtues of single womanhood. In no time, however, Marjorie overdid it. Her love life sizzled into the headlines: Singer Tom Jones was photographed giving her a soulful kiss, Millionaire Peter Revson was seen squiring her around, and last month, after a tiff, Britain's swinging Soccer Star George Best allegedly broke into Marjorie's London apartment and stole her passport, checkbook, correspondence, liquor...
...their lawyers worried about how their clients would be treated by a jury made up of a bunch of New Yorkers who had almost certainly been influenced by newspaper and television reports of perjury and influence peddling. So the defense requested that the trial be removed to Meridian, Miss. "There are fewer network shows, fewer newspapers there." But the Mitchell-Stans lawyers surely knew that the wall-to-wall publicity surrounding Watergate has reached into Meridian. Thus their faintly facetious gesture seemed really to be raising a deeper and more disturbing question: Can any of the Watergate defendants...
...didn't know shit about the boat, I mean, though it was my idea to steal it. Anyway, we came back into the harbor and went right by this police boat. He kept right on going the other way. Fine, we figure, the guy never even came down to miss the fucking thing. Next thing, I turn around and there's the police boat and two Coast Guard cutters with those blue lights turning; so we turn the boat on full blast and head for shore and somebody finally yells jump; well, I was pretty drunk and jumped over...
Hess Yntema, after a fluke wave emptied into his mouth causing him to miss a stroke during the butterfly leg of the medley relay, turned in an outstanding triple, the only one of the three-day meet. He owned the 200-yd. distance, winning handily in the 200-yd. I.M., the 200-yd. freestyle, and 200-yd. butterfly, and anchoring the victorious 800-yd. free relay. Teammate Tom Wolf came within a shade of winning the 100-yd. back, in the process breaking the only record left from the pre-Gambril-Essick era, and ran away from everybody...
Then there was Tom Stuart, mayor of Meridian, Miss., coming around with another of those petitions of support for Nixon. This one was signed by 20,000 persons. Such documents seem to grow on trees down South. They surface at the White House in every time of tension...