Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Criminal Mind. In Camden, N.J., police were hunting the burglar who jumped from Miss Helen Larkin's window, then rushed back into the house and retrieved his shoes. In Louisville, police nabbed two men as they returned to the scene of the crime to recover their tools...
...Suitor. In Shanghai, Miss Chang Yun-shiu had the law on Ma Shu-li after he 1) protested his love for her in a letter written in blood; 2) threatened to kill her; 3) tried for the third time to climb in her bedroom window...
...lady behind the welcoming program was an ex-school teacher named Georgia B. Howe, who remembers what it is like to be lonely on a new job. Miss Howe had arranged everything-apartments, luncheons of crab Louis and boysenberry pie, a picnic in the park, a tea at the Art Museum. The Portland Symphony gave a special concert; the Civic Theater arranged a concert-drama evening; the city put on a garden party. There was also a day-long trip up Mount Hood. Local clubs had donated the buses, neighboring towns were waiting with ice cream and coffee, restaurants gave...
...favorites, for no champion has ever succeeded in repeating. One morning last week, competing in his first Grand American, a Wisconsin high-school boy in overalls and shooting jacket "went straight" for the first 68 clay birds, muffed the 69th, finished out his 100 shots without another miss. Then curly-haired Jimmy Rasmussen, 17, went back to his job as scorekeeper for other contestants, to help pay his way to the meet at Vandalia, Ohio...
...doctors are also considering the new drug myanesin (TIME, July 12), and may suggest crushing one of the patient's phrenic nerves (TIME, Jan. 27, 1947) to stop the spasms of the diaphragm that cause the hiccups. Miss Lucas, whose weight has dropped from 129 Ibs. to 85, is willing to try almost anything...