Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Babbitt's van races through Iowa under a steely sky, he gazes out the window and sighs. For a moment there is a lingering wistfulness, a remote sadness, for all the missed meals and family separations. But no one is forcing him to continue. In the end, there is only one reason why he made the painful decision to miss for the first time going trick-or-treating with his sons. There was the distant hope, still visible to him on the Iowa horizon, that he would have to miss Halloween only one more time -- next year, as he heads...
...state stereotyped as piteously poor and prejudiced, Mississippi has shown its eagerness to cast off the plagues of racial politics, an archaic constitution and rural-dominated economics. One recent symbol: the crowning last summer of a black woman, 23-year-old Toni Seawright, as Miss Mississippi. ! Yet the attitude is hardly unanimous. Last week voters finally repealed a 97- year-old constitutional ban on interracial marriage (which had already been struck down by the courts), but they did so by an embarrassingly close...
...Vegas gaming tables. But the good times ended during a scandal-ridden third term that saw Edwards indicted twice on racketeering charges; one trial ended in a hung jury, the other in acquittal. After his defeat, the silver-tongued Cajun bid a jaunty farewell: "You're going to miss me," he said. "But many of you don't know...
...group's director, Larry Brown, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, says that while hunger in the U.S. is nowhere near Third World levels, poor families regularly "miss meals, cut down and go without for a couple of days." The Agriculture Department attacked the report's accuracy, saying that food-stamp spending has risen 12% since...
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