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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Protests. There are always a few people who never miss inaugurals and coronations. Among the more solvent of them this time around were the Henry Fords and W. Clement Stone. The Fords threw a private bash at the F Street Club, where Martha Mitchell and Husband John, lately of New York, got a chance to see their old Washington friends. Outside the club, in a scene reminiscent of a college football movie, George Washington University students cheered the guests on in the friendliest of ways. They were duly rewarded with a five-minute impromptu performance by Bob Hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Scenes: Something for Everybody | 1/29/1973 | See Source »

...Miss Strong really say "John Reed '10 will go down" etc? Russian history may record the deeds of John Reed, but I doubt if they will ever set aside a holiday as John Reed '10's birthday. (Or is it John Reed's '10 birthday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Gathers Funds for a New Home | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...take over the business of running the paper, as soon as the last murmurs of the festival fade away. The people who made the ceremonies possible--Andrew P. Corty '74, the hundredth anniversary czar Pat Sorrento, the shop foreman whose patience with dilatory copy makes Job seem a piker; Miss Eunice Ficket, the Business Board's conscience, soul and spirit, who has kept the details running; and those whose names have been forgotten--all will pick up the pattern of their lives after they recover from the partying. They have done well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Early Sixties Bring Avid Support For JFK, But a Long Week for Pusey | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...them. But a true believer can be reduced to the helpless laughter of a hyena in a feather factory by some scenes. At one point, Vic is memorizing the opening ritual for his lodge meeting. Rush is checking and prompting him from a copy made by Miss Gregg, Vic's secretary. The following exchange takes place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bow-Wow and Barley! | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...Miss Gregg made a typographical error. She copied this off on her machine an' did it in a rush an' there's several mistakes you'll run across. Use your head, pipecleaner. One doesn't squat before the campfire to bow-wow and barley. One squats before the campfire to pow-wow an' parley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bow-Wow and Barley! | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

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