Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Obermeyer, "We miss college rowing. We're all experienced oarsmen and women who love rowing and want to continue it in graduate school...
Coach Joe Restic's famed Multiflex offense today will miss versatile tailback Rufus Jones, who twisted his knee last week and will watch the game from the sidelines. Nonetheless, a slew of capable runners--including Joe Pusateri, Terry Denson, and George Sorbara--will hungrily attack a Big Green defense that has given up almost six yards per rush...
...hilariously original satire on the closed-in sensibilities of Tuna's God-fearing Christians doesn't miss any of the familiar small town cliches: bigotry, hypocrisy, xenophobia, catty gossip, and the usual repressed instincts lurking under propriety. Even death in this tumbleweed town is a cause for excitement. Pearl Burris, the canincidal matron with a taste for strychnine stands in the funeral home, admiring the "lovely-looking corpse" of Judge Buckner, her long-ago Romeo, found dead in a Dale Evans one-piece swimsuit. Meanwhile, the latest word from Nadine's mother is that Nadine has run away again...
...sites chosen by the EPA for quick action should probably not have been on the top-priority list in the first place. In Greenville, Miss., Walcott Chemical Co. had stored 226 drums of such chemicals as tetrasodium pyrophosphate and formic acid in a warehouse that the state of Mississippi had seized for failure to pay taxes. The state considered the chemicals a fire hazard (rather than a contamination threat) and asked EPA to put the site near the top of its list. The agency merely had the drums hauled off to an approved landfill in Emelle, Ala. Problem solved. Similarly...
...become even more adamant about remaining in his adopted country. He plans to seek citizenship and will register shortly for the draft. "I'm an American," he told the Washington Post. "I got nothing to go back for. My life is here in America. There is nothing--nothing--I miss in the Soviet Union...