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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though such jokes are not altogether reassuring when applied to a possible future president, they are probably unfounded, and even if they were not, they'd miss the essential point. Presidents need not be intellectuals. They should be decent people, and it's on these grounds that Ford has apparently won widespread popularity. In fact, dismayed by the indictments of most of President Nixon's top aides, some trend-setters have been hailing Ford as the best idea since the Model T. "GOP Begins to Rally Around Ford; Growing Crowds Hail New Boldness," said the headline in yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Demonstrate | 3/11/1974 | See Source »

...quality that blends with the acerbic honesty you expect from Brecht. The Winter's Tale is the only other play I know with as deep a feeling for dialectic change and the hope it makes possible. With any kind of production, it should be a good play not to miss. Opens tonight, 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: THE STAGE | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

...will miss us. As the sheep men leave the scene and no longer finance predator-control programs, the adaptable coyote will soon develop an increasing taste for antelope, deer and elk. These will be the next to feel the impact of being the sacrifice species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1974 | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

Their lives had some of the character and texture of an oldfashioned, well-upholstered novel. It is James Mellow's achievement that he has told the story carefully and unpretentiously in clear, uncluttered prose. The evidence is that the first part was the best. When Miss Stein, the privately tutored daughter of a California stockbroker, first went to Europe in 1903, she encountered young painters-Picasso, Braque, Matisse. She and her brother Leo began buying their pictures and aggressively befriending them. She clipped The Katzenjammer Kids from home newspapers for Picasso. The famous Saturday open-house evenings began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Steinways | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...income from the fund given by Miss Draper was not sufficient to appoint a lecturer annually and it was decided to make an appointment every other year for one semester only. Under this system the University had for the next twenty years a series of distinguished visiting professors including among others Giorgio Spini, Roberto Lopez, Arnaldo Momigliano, Carlo Dionisotti and Federigo Zeri...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ITALIAN LECTURESHIP | 2/28/1974 | See Source »

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