Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waited patiently, playing mumblety-peg and drinking ourselves silly by the mailbox. This was one bash we were not prepared to miss. But the hours went by, day turned into night, cops told us to move on, and still no invites. Stories started turning up in the media about the big do that was going on in Orlando. Our favorite radio station began broadcasting live from there...
...therefore propose to say nothing other thanto respond to issues raised by Miss Skocpol,"Landes said...
With both the U.S. Secretary of State and the Soviet Foreign Minister at U.N. sessions in New York City, the Daniloff discussions grew urgent against the informal deadline of Shevardnadze's scheduled departure for Ottawa on Tuesday of this week. "If we miss (that date), both sides would be the worse," said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov. "We don't want that." But the two sides appeared to be unwilling to yield on critical points. "Obviously we desire a settlement as soon as possible," said Shultz, "if it can be settled on the right basis." For the U.S. that means...
Aficionados may complain that not much is new in Nightingale. Like many people with long practice at being interviewed, Williams tended to repeat well-rehearsed witticisms. But the flavor is authentic, especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life...
Beauty pageants are supposed to be Cinderella tales, where at the grand finale the queen sobs tears of joy while the losers hug her valiantly. Last week the Miss Thailand World contest ended up in a guerrilla-style skirmish that looked more like a nasty palace coup. While TV cameras recorded the scene, Newly Crowned Saengravee Asavarak, 22, was beaming before a Bangkok audience of 2,000 when someone grabbed her tiara and put it on the head of the sobbing first runner-up. Then another hand attempted to pull off her winner's sash. Saengravee was popular with...