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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more miss than Horn and that made the difference," Harvard's only point scorer said yesterday. "I'm satisfied with the four points but I'm not thrilled with the jump." Embree had already jumped above 7 ft. in regular season contests...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Embree Near-Misses High Jump Title | 5/28/1974 | See Source »

...either stepped or been pushed into the background came earlier this month when he failed to attend a banquet in his honor given by visiting Senegalese President Leopold Senghor at the Great Hall of the People in Peking. It was the first time that Chou has been known to miss a scheduled public appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: A Partial Eclipse? | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...century Prime Minister who "sought to conspire with foreign countries and push our whole nation into an abyss." The author concluded by asking, "Is there not another man who has already attained a very high position and yet still wants to be Chairman of the country?" Lest the reader miss the point, the article added that the unnamed culprit "will not allow any dazzling light into the room." Chou is known to be bothered by bright lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: A Partial Eclipse? | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

Miffed, South Viet Nam's spokesman Bui Bao True declared, "Mr. Sartre and Miss de Beauvoir have always had a reputation of demanding the legitimization of illegal acts, crimes and bad actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 27, 1974 | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...seemed like a partnership that could not miss. Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein and Choreographer Jerome Robbins, who created an authentic American dance classic in Fancy Free (1944) and later joined forces on Broadway's evergreen West Side Story, were collaborating on a new work for the first time in nearly 17 years. In the season of The Exorcist, their theme had a certain built-in appeal: the ancient Jewish folk myth of the dybbuk, a wandering spirit of a dead person that invades and inhabits the body of a living man or woman. So what could go wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Where the Spirit Listeth | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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