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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think you know a lot about Harvard hockey? You wear Crimson sweaters. You call opposing goalies "Black Holes." You never miss a game at Bright Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How Much Do You Really Know? | 11/10/1989 | See Source »

...implications of these changes for academia are staggering. Soviet Studies professors, who once took long vacations without anyone's noticing, can't go to the bathroom for fear they'll miss two or three key announcements. They spend their spare hours looking in the dictionary for new phrases to use in their papers...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Eastern European Quiz | 11/8/1989 | See Source »

...Miss Emily Brent, an aged spinster, Andrea Thome manages to keep her back erect and her opinions prim even as her peers die in hideous fashion. John Ducey adopts the physical mannerisms of an old fogey perfectly, and his General Arthur MacKenzie shambles from place to place in a manner that is both disconcerting (Ducey's mouth hangs open for much of his time on stage) and endearing (when he apologetically requests a certain seat because "that's where my chair is at the Club...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: And Then There Were None | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

...stolen by two who manage to evade death until near the end. As Sir Lawrence Wargrave, a notorious "hanging judge," Woody Hill paces through his scenes like a hawk, interrogating other characters in courtroom style and calmly remarking, "We've been invited here by a madman, probably homicidal." Miss Vera Claythorne (Reid Cottingham) uses physical objects perfectly, obsessively adjusting the rings on her finger and hovering in the background with a cigarette like an angel of death...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: And Then There Were None | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

Fellow Tri-Captain Nick Branca says that "you can always count on the right side of the pool to work hard" because of Griffin. "He seems like he can never really go slow. We obviously miss him on Sundays, [when Griffin is unable to play for religious reasons]," Branca adds...

Author: By Kevin Toh, | Title: 'That Adventuresome Spirit' | 11/3/1989 | See Source »

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