Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter, who joined Edwards in a successful effort to revoke the 1965 rule, no longer belongs to the Plains congregation and refused comment. His cousin Hugh, a deacon of the church, said that he felt sure the President was "very deeply hurt." Miss Lillian telephoned Edwards to tell him she was "broken-hearted...
...University of Alabama; former Deputy Pentagon Chief William Clements as chairman of Sedco Inc., an oil well-drilling firm in Dallas; and former Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb as head of Shearson Hayden Stone's investment banking department in New York City. Says Zarb: "You always miss people, old friends, old places. But it took me about ten minutes to get adjusted...
...Come on, Lucky Pierre," shouted the chap in the stands at a Miami jai alai fronton. "I can't miss with you." It was Jerry Wurf, Washington-based boss of the State, County and Municipal Workers, the nation's largest public employees union (750,000 members), cheering on a lanky player on the court. But when unlucky Pierre swung his curved basket at the speeding white jai alai ball and missed, Wurf, who had not won a bet all night, resignedly tore up his losing $2 ticket. "If we don't win the next one," he told...
...wanted was for Miss McCue to call the Hartford office where policy decisions are made and tell them we were here protesting their investment in the company," Bell said...
...grizzled teller of grisly war tales is also a time traveler who discovers a new world he cannot comprehend. Lest even the dimmest reader miss Rosales' mythic overtones. Day gives him the nickname El Lobo and introduces a scene in which the hero stares pensively at a caged but still spunky wolf...