Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miss USA Beauty Pageant. Miss USA 1972 will be crowned in Puerto Rico from among 51 contestants. Bob Barker is emcee, while judges include Ed Sullivan, Walt Frazier, Jacqueline Susann, and Cleveland Amory. 10, May 20, Chan...
...drag bunting is doing it when the other team is off guard. I often swing hard at the first pitch and miss intentionally in order to make the infield think I'll be hitting away," McGugan said. "But what made that play against Princeton particularly effective was the fact that Tim was moving on the pitch. We have our own set of signals for this type of situation, and he knew what I was going to do," he said...
...explains over his nightly gourmet repast, glaring balefully around the table at anyone who might offer a contradiction. Charles has to romp about the estate in knickers, but takes some solace in sculpting huge, brooding Olympian figures. Helene is something of a stiff, a quality convincingly conveyed by Miss Jobert, who shuffles through the film in a state of saucer-eyed rigor mortis...
Like Maria, Tuesday has always had the reputation of being a difficult performer to work with. Like Maria, she has had a troubled private life that has made her something of an untouchable flower in lotus land. "Miss Weld is not a very good representative for the motion-picture industry," complained Gossip Columnist Louella Parsons, Hollywood's dragon lady, when Tuesday was 16 and the star of a seemingly endless series of sex-at-the-beach type minipics. Actually, Tuesday's sins-odd clothing, bare feet and open love affairs -would have seemed quite normal a decade later...
...traditionally stolid German "Ohne mich"-"Include me out." Friedrich describes a night when, despite fighting in the streets, U.F.A., Germany's giant movie company, went ahead with its press preview for Carmen, starring Pola Negri and directed by Ernst Lubitsch. "The champagne was chilled to perfection," Miss Negri recalled. "We sat down and the film began. I heard a faint sound in the distance . . . gunfire." Had he heard it too? Miss Negri asked Lubitsch. "Shh," said Lubitsch. "There's nothing anybody can do. Watch the picture...