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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moldanado. They are middleweights. Stiles cannot even afford a pair of boxing trunks; he fights in a pair of blue terrycloth shorts. He had entered the ring in a robe of the same material. K-Mart coordinates. Neither one of them can fight. They hardly throw any punches. They miss the ones they throw. Nobody is watching them anyway...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: La Nause'e In The Ring | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...ticket to the afterlife, and ends the fight. People are going crazy. Hagler's wife is in the ring, jumping up and down, her arms in the air. His kid comes in the ring in a little three piece suit. Everyone is hurrying out. They want to miss the crowds. Hagler is holding his belt...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: La Nause'e In The Ring | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

Dear Ann Landers: A man 12 years my junior talks of marriage, but his conversations all wind up with questions about my financial situation. [If] he is insincere ... why does he swear he worships the ground I walk on? Miss B.L.K...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Homespun Zaps and Zingers | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...Dear Miss B.L.K.: He probably thinks there's oil under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Homespun Zaps and Zingers | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...discussion was interrupted momentarily by the arrival of Rodney Pearson, Winthrop House business tutor and erstwhile scrimmager against the Ol' Miss. women's hoop squad, currently ranked tenth in the nation. Pearson turned out to be a women's Cager fan as well...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Every Which Way But Wins | 1/16/1981 | See Source »

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