Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...points were surrendered as the defenses dominated and the punters battled for field position. After an early Steinberg miss, the Crimson senior and Princeton's Goodwin traded second-quarter field goals. Steinberg added another at 12:36 to give the hosts a 6-3 advantage...
...peacetime military draft does not stand for public service. Rather, it is symbolic of a society which is gripped by fear. Claims that the draft would bolster our needy conventional forces miss the point that what we need to bolster during times of peace is our diplomatic and aid forces...
Shortly after the murder, the gunman with the bloodstained clothing appeared on the bridge, told Captain De Rosa what had happened and ordered him to advise the Syrian authorities in Tartus. He also said that the second victim would be "Miss Mildred," evidently referring to Mildred Hodes, but he did not follow through on that threat. For a while, some passengers and crew members thought the gunmen might also have murdered an Austrian woman, Anna Hoerangner, who was missing. Eventually it was discovered that though she had been knocked down a flight of stairs by a hijacker at the time...
HOSPITALIZED. Peggy Lee, 65, cool, cottony-voiced song stylist (Fever, Lover): in stable condition following double bypass coronary surgery after she was stricken with chest pains; in New Orleans. The operation, her second for heart problems this year, forced her to miss a White House performance last week...
...bleakest of Swedes did, in fact, think of women as "whores," including his three wives. In brilliant but vitriolic plays like Miss Julie (an aristocrat lusts after her servant) and Creditors (hell in the shape of a triangle), Strindberg practices his own advice to other authors on the treatment of female characters: "Accuse them, blacken them; abuse them so that they haven't a clean spot--that is dramatic!" His second wife, Frida, an Austrian journalist, compared marriage to Strindberg to "a death ride over crackling ice and bottomless depths." There is little evidence that his first wife, Siri...