Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both a diplomatic duty and a sentimental journey for President Carter's mother. While her son voiced mock concern that "when Mother gets home we'll either have very good relations with India or they'll be destroyed once again," Miss Lillian, 78, and Grandson Chip, 26, flew to New Delhi to lead the official U.S. delegation at the funeral last week of Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Jimmy Carter had nothing to worry about. His mother's Southern grace charmed everyone, including Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who invited her home for what Miss Lillian called...
Remembering that she loved Indian sandals and could not buy them in the U.S., her friends presented her with 50 pairs, from which she chose two. Garlanded with lavender flowers, Miss Lillian was almost overcome. "I never knew you thought so much of me," she told the crowd. "I'm so excited that I had forgotten that Jimmy was President. I didn't even care. The first time I came here, I walked so much it seemed like a thousand miles. But I give you my word, I was happier walking here then than...
...were in one of those movies, sitting on the track in front of an express train. The train is bearing down on you. You know what to do if you did not have ten other things that needed doing first. You are praying that the train somehow will miss and you will not get hit. Such a situation occurred in Cyprus. If I had ever had twelve hours and been able to pick out an intelligence report, I would have seen that the situation needed attention...
...night air was filled with shouts. As some Norwegian counterespionage agents charged from behind trees and snowbanks, others jumped from cruising taxicabs. They swiftly wrestled the man to the ground, grabbed a packet that he had given Haavik and hustled the woman off to jail. The trusted, spinsterly Miss Haavik, who routinely handled secret documents, had been a Soviet spy for more than 27 of her 30 years in the Foreign Ministry...
...paid cash for all her major purchases for her first nine years after graduating from Wayne State University in Detroit because she feared she lacked the self-discipline to handle credit. Now, as co-owner of a recently founded catering business, she needs credit; the business cannot borrow unless Miss Brooks and her partner, another single woman, prove their personal creditworthiness. Says Janet: "I've tried Master Charge, Carte Blanche, Diners Club, local stores, you name it. I walk into a store and apply for a charge account; I get back a notice that my credit has been refused...