Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Minutemen were simply unable to miss during the opening phase of the game, and with Harvard having trouble setting up its offense and a trifle slow in getting back on defense, the UMass fluid attack quickly asserted itself...
Also costly was the team's inability to get untracked offensively in the opening moments, and, needless to say, UMass' refusal to miss...
...POOR MISS Lonelyhearts. It's not the most enchanting occupation, this playing Dear Abby to a world of grotesques, trying to find an answer for the frustrated and despairing who package their pain in ungrammatical letters whining for relief. Reporters are supposed to maintain a professional distance from their subject, but the cries of these letter-writers, loud and agonizing, force Miss Lonelyhearts to become immersed in his. Originally a means of advancing his career and increasing his paper's circulation, the column he writes serves finally as a conduit for personal tragedy; awakened to a vain search...
Other retailers look on Bloomingdale's as the store to watch. Margaret Dadian, chief buyer for Kay Campbell Stores in Evanston, Ill., says of her frequent trips to New York: "I'd miss seeing my grandchildren, but I'd never miss seeing Bloomingdale's." Nordstrom, a company that operates 17 stores in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, makes a point of sending buyers on pilgrimages to Bloomingdale's. "It is a very flexible store," says Merchandiser Jack McMillan. "It's quick to see and develop new lines." In Boston, once-staid Jordan Marsh has patterned part of itself after Bloomingdale...
...earliest performed in the U.S. In some fundamental way, Rose was Tennessee's muse, the "White Goddess," in Robert Graves' term, who inspired him to write. She, of course, is the crippled Laura of The Glass Menagerie. But his mother, whom he calls "Miss Edwina," has been the love-hate pivot of his life. Quite apart from supplying the model for the memorable Amanda Wingfield in Menagerie, this formidable lady, now in her 90th year, stamped certain irreversible traits on Tennessee's attitudes, character and dramatic style. Valiant in coping with her stingy shoe-salesman husband Cornelius...