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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four white men in McComb, Miss. pleaded guilty to bombing black people's homes. What was their sentence...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg and Tom Lee, S | Title: The Joyce-Maynard-is-21,-The-Sixties-Are-History Quiz | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Lured by the dubious romance of the rusty wire, some 65,000 collectors are now in the field, many of them members of one of the two dozen local, state or regional barbed-wire associations. The Barbed Wire Association of La Crosse, Kans., has crowned a Miss Barbed Wire and sponsors a world championship barbed-wire splicing contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Barbarians | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...tester here, 185-200 yds. if the pin is placed on the back edge of the green or to the left near the pond. But forget the pin placement and always -I mean always-hit to the right side of the green. If you hit to the left and miss, you're in the pond and have an automatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How the Masters Will Be Won | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...viewer can miss such parallels as the one between this seemingly innocuous face and George the hairdresser's zipper: both are respectable facades covering much more menacing organs. But beyond such breathtakingly contemporary and decidedly hip statements, the movie does little more than pay homage to Hollywood's God, Tinsel, who beneficently provides Beatty, who wrote the script, with enough ribbons and bows to wrap up this relic from some moviemakers' junkyard and offer it as something new. The context is modern but the story is old, so that the viewer is left feeling like someone who goes...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Soggy Suds | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...HOUSTON--A strong ball club in a stronger division. The Astros will sorely miss the services of pitcher Don Wilson, who died by asphyxiation during the off season. Other than a lack of depth in the pitching department sluggers Cesar Cedeno and last year's Rookie of the Year Greg Gross provide plenty of offensive muscle...

Author: By Francis T. Crimmins jr., | Title: Frankly Speaking | 4/8/1975 | See Source »

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