Word: missed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miss those summers when nothing really mattered. I want to be booted off to camp by my parents and have them pick me up after a month. I want to take those family vacations in late August. I miss those precious times when everything was decided by others...
...course, it was impossible for MacDonald to avoid the spotlight. His breakaway goal in the second period against Minnesota was outstanding, but he didn't need scoring numbers to make the All-Tourney team. His speed, skating ability and penalty-killing ability were just too hard to miss...
...think about being funny very much because it's how I get by. For me it's always been a way to be likable but removed." The result is that outsiders can misinterpret her manner and mistakenly belittle her talent. Playwright Terrence McNally complains that "what people often miss about Wendy is the thoughtful, passionate, mature womanly side of her. She is far more interesting as a mature artist than as this giggling, girlish, daughter-person that people want to take care...
Fish won't be missed by opposing coaches, but the squash world is losing one of its greatest minds. And reporters will miss his sense of humor, his candor and his accessibility...
...shows usually come from the most conservative elements of American society. One pressure group, Christian Leaders for Responsible TV, is making plans to monitor TV programming this spring and to organize a boycott of major sponsors of "anti-Christian" shows. Rakolta's objections to Married . . . With Children managed to miss totally the show's satirical point. This sitcom family -- male-chauvinist husband, unliberated wife, sluttish teenage daughter -- is being lampooned by exaggeration. The same sort of complaints -- just as misguided -- were launched against the bigoted Archie Bunker in the early 1970s...