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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...object is to see who can shoot his 200-pound anvil the furthest. As one man in the Decatur crowd said, all these politicians were fine with him, but he sure hated to miss the anvil shooting.Governor GEORGE C. WALLACE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennedy Joins Wallace at July 4 Fest | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

...Yugoslav association is my uncle." But the uncle was adamant, despite Pilic's pleas that he had never agreed to play. Then the I.L.T.F rashly involved the entire tennis world in what was essentially a family affair. It suspended Pilic until July 1, forcing him to miss Wimbledon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon Showdown | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

Retirement will not be an abrupt change for his contented man. He admits he will miss his job--the people, the benefits and the books--but he looks forward to pursuing his favorite pastime--travel...

Author: By Katherine Field, | Title: Jr. Lincoln Hired As Father Retires At Harvard Press | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...sustaining memories of people in their sad, funny, futile, courageous and frightened ways of meeting life and trying to cope with it." When his engaging but minor talent began to fail, he turned to Hollywood, where his screenplay for Splendor in the Grass (1961) won an Oscar. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1970), a novel about a woman brutally isolated from society, met with modest success. The manuscript of an other Inge novel, The Boy From the Circus, was found in his living room on the day of his death - rejected by a New York publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 25, 1973 | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

INTERVAL is a kind of vanity production produced by and starring Merle Oberon, 62. She has had finer moments (Wuthering Heights, The Scarlet Pimpernel). Miss Oberon is always being consulted on such questions as "How do you feel about love?" "Have you ever made love without love?" - and is in turn forever dispensing bits of Mary Worth wisdom like "We're all caught in the same interval between being born and dying." A feckless young artist (Robert Wolders) is unaccountably smitten by her, and they begin one of those romances that require them to wander around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

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