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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, backed by his Cabinet and by opposition leaders, alerted Grenzschutzgruppe 9 (G.S.G. 9), the elite commando unit of West Germany's Border Protection Force. Thirty members of the unit left immediately for Cyprus aboard a Lufthansa 707, Flight 1231. But Flight 1231, in a near miss, arrived at Larnaca just as Flight 181 was taking off. Flight 1231 flew to Ankara to await further instructions, while the hijacked plane flew on to Bahrain and Dubai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Terror and Triumph at Mogadishu | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

...really didn't get a good shot off. I miss-hit it, but it floated in," Nelson explained afterwards...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Crimson Soccer Teams Draw at Williamstown | 10/26/1977 | See Source »

...still miss Karla Amble, lost to that bone injury, but our girls did not hell of a job to beat the tough UMass team in Amherst," Hunt added. Amble was hurt in the season's opener against UMass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Runs, Women Win, Men Lose | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...truth it's been a little more than a year since Isom's "incredible" performance. In Princeton's opening game last season against Cornell, Isom ran for 161 yards. An injury in the following game against Rutgers from which he never quite recovered forced him to miss two games and wind up with only 439 yards on the season...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: H-e-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Bobby! | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...Tigers controlled the ball for more than 42 minutes of the game, so a case could be made that Harvard did well just keeping the score that low. Indeed, the Crimson made one goal-line stand in the second quarter, stopped Princeton twice later on before watching Chris Howe miss two quite makeable field goals, killed a fourth drive thanks to a Tom Masterson interception, and otherwise put in a long, if not good, day's work...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: You Win Some, You Lose Some, You Isom | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

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