Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there and I thought I would have to wait at least an hour before all the people in front of me got rides. A hot red porsche pulled up to the stoplight. On the right-hand window was a Harvard sticker--this was a sure ride. I couldn't miss. But the driver was dressed in a three-piece suit, and his sleek bubble sunglasses turned Business School into his face. When I knocked on his window, he kept right on looking at the light, as if it were holding him back from important dealings elsewhere. This was no ride...
Abie-Bodied Seaman Earl Gilbert, 52, of Pascagoula, Miss.: "After the Marines came, God I felt good. Damn good. Those Marines are great. Ford did a damn good job, but I just want to thank those Marines...
Unsatisfied with the president's evasion. Thomas asked Ford if he thought that we couldn't learn from the past. "Miss Thomas, I think the lessons of the past in Vietnam have already been learned," Ford said, becoming openly hostile to the line of questioning. "We should have our focus on the future, and as far as I'm concerned that's where we will concentrate...
...hope to go back to teaching someday because I miss it a lot, but at the moment I feel a desire and a need to write," he said yesterday...
...Monty (Adeyami Lythcott), her eventual rapist. But it is clear that she is drawn to a black man as by an intoxicating musk and a not-so-fantasied danger. Bullins' Monty is a street stud who has climbed out of the ghetto without shedding his skin. With "Miss Janie," as he tauntingly calls her, Monty does not so much wish to make a score as to even...