Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time. Most had lost not only the practical hard goods of existence but the small, irreplaceable mementos and icons of a lifetime. Inez Nichols had recently installed new carpeting and bathroom appliances in the home she and her late husband had bought 27 years ago, but knew she would miss most poignantly what had been the only existing pictures of her mother and spouse. Nadine Fosky, 22, "lost, quite simply, everything." Clothes. School papers. Her special Buddhist chanting scroll. She anguished over it all -- even over the very special scent of her house. Said she: "Someone said that a house...
...recalls. But needing to exercise and feeling lonesome, she gave walking a try, and now does 1 1/2 miles a day with newfound friends. "We walk, and we tell jokes and have a good clean fellowship," she says happily. "I enjoy the company." "And we would miss you if you weren't here," responds Charles Bridges, 67, gallantly...
...shelter or food or water to be found. There is, however, peace. Mohammed Ali, a gaunt 60-year-old Ethiopian farmer, led his wife and five children on a ten-day walk to Sudan's Wad Sherife camp. At the end of the road he found scant sustenance. "I miss my village," Ali told TIME's Philip Finnegan, "but I am glad I came. I am afraid of the war. Even if I am hungry here, I don't hear the bombs and the fighting...
...Dear Miss Manners...
...Mode's monolithic melodies, abetted by clever consumer-culture sound effects (dropping ping-pong balls, snipping scissors) and super-resonant production, captures the finely-ground precision of the motionmusik, and added to the heartbreak of frustated adolescent romance, how could it miss...