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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very definitely that the average man or woman could fly in space." The only major change urged by the astronauts for future missions is an increase in the daily program of exercises from 30 minutes to perhaps an hour and a half to help maintain muscle tone. Did they miss anything in particular? Aside from female companionship, said Weitz, "I guess I missed cold beer most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Picture Portfolio of Skylab 1: The Longest Flight | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

...worst in the viewer rather than in the subjects. Most of the episodes are dull when viewed separately, but the cumulative effects are devastating. This is a second chance to catch a truly experimental work, for what that is worth, but if you hated it the first time, miss it. Channel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: television | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

...triumph of this production is the Margery of Carole Shelley, making her AST debut. It is an unalloyed delight to follow her progress from an innocent country wife to a sophisticated cunt-ry mistress (Wycherley surely intended the punning title). Miss Shelley has the advantage of being British herself and of knowing just how to deal with Margery's unrefined diction. How honestly she skips about on learning she has smitten a man at the theatre! What a laugh she elicits on exclaiming, "Oh jeminy!," when first introduced to the Horner she has heard about! How telling her little gasp...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'The Country Wife' in Bright, Funny Revival | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

...notices her sly smile on penning "For Mister Horner," one senses her giddy excitement on being able to write her own letter, one enjoys her unconscious tickling of her nose with the quill, one shares her gleeful success at hiding the dictated letter under Pinchwife's very wig. Miss Shelley gives an exhibition of consummate artistry...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'The Country Wife' in Bright, Funny Revival | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

...James O. Eastland (D-Miss.). Eastland, a professional racist, has from his post atop the Senate's powerful Judiciary Committee opposed even the mildest measures for racial justice. He doubles as a gentleman farmer: his huge Mississippi plantations receive the Agriculture Department's highest annual acreage payments...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Twenty World Enemies | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

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