Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streets, trampling the poor wasted troopers on their way to Harvard Pizza with their cross-country skis. I'm talking about the guys whose last game of anything was an emotional outburst of drunken nerf football between halves of the Super Bowl; whose last emergency was having to miss their scheduled beer runs during the second and third periods of Monday's Beanpot opener in order to watch John Hynes do his sprawling, miraculous Eddie Giacomin saves in the face of repeated Northeastern B-52 raids. I'm talking about the fans, not the players...
...Brien had suspended Washington--then with the Lakers--for 60 days on December 12 after Washington seriously injured the Houston Rockets' Rudy Tomjanovich in a December 9 game. Tomjanovich, who sustained a broken jaw, broken nose, fractured skull and a concussion in the incident, will miss at least the rest of the season...
...support for them. Belatedly, the President began dispatching senior Cabinet members around the country to try to change minds. Carter is moving into overdrive as well. Last week he answered questions on the treaties via direct telephone hookups to Foreign Policy Association-sponsored meetings in Albuquerque and in Hattiesburg, Miss. He also sent letters to 3,000 American leaders in business and the professions, encouraging them to "help us lay the facts before the public...
...Pasquale. Two composers are writing operas for her, which are due to be introduced in the spring of 1979. They are Gian Carlo Menotti's Juana la Loca, about the mad daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, for the San Diego Opera, and Dominick Argento's Miss Havisham's Fire, based on Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, for the New York City Opera...
Julian Bond, who hopes to give up his seat in the Georgia state legislature and become a television commentator, on possible compensation: "I was pleased with what Miss Walters...