Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next year Jakovic will hang up her spikes for good, traveling to California to attend Stanford Law School. She ensured admission to prestigious grad schools by keeping a Group II average for four years, even with continued athletic commitments. She will miss playing sports next year, but, after all, she has so much to learn...
...Life of Riley, 1953-58) stayed home too, despite the constant money worries stemming from Riley's modest wage as a riveter. And the handful of working women in '50s TV were mostly man-hungry spinsters like Eve Arden's schoolteacher in Our Miss Brooks (1952-56) and Ann B. Davis' jill-of-all-trades Schultzy in the Bob Cummings Show...
...always proved easy. Marcum started to rival the Martin Mercury, which was owned and operated by John Kirk, a local attorney. The Mercury eventually folded, to be replaced a week later by the Martin County Times which was published out of the same offices. ("It didn't miss a beat. It was an attempt to try new faces and new places and win back the credibility that the Mercury had lost," Marcum says...
Though we did not make it to the mausoleum that day, we did not miss Lenin because he is still, in the words of the Russian poet Mayakovsky, "more alive than all the living." His portrait graces billboards and blackboards alike. His name lends its dignity to Moscow State University, the city library, and entire metro system, not to mention what was formerly St. Petersburg...
...real news in America emerges so often from exactly these regional differences, from the Civil War to the current flight of industry to the South and West, that picking a microdot in the middle might miss the point. How much can you learn about major league baseball by studying the teams that finish third in each division' Something, for sure, but not what you probably wanted to find...