Word: missing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...omitted the other side. Does every person with the price of a Smith-Corona deserve to be called freelance? The sobering answer: most editors' greatest complaint is that many "writers" don't bother to read a copy of the magazine before submitting articles and wildly miss the publication's slant. So-called freelancers fail to deliver assignments more than 50% of the time and have an awesome record of not meeting deadlines...
...stubborn as she was. Regular schooling was a chore she impatiently endured; she eventually dropped out in the eleventh grade. At home, Jack's royalties were dwindling. Nancy took a job and found work for Gelsey as a child model. She detested it "because it was so upsetting to miss a class." A dance scholarship came to the rescue and put her in classes 12½ hours a week. Twice a day she and her classmate Meg Gordon donned rubber sweat pants and took turns stretching each other's legs, an ordeal that often left Gelsey weeping. Her muscles were taut...
...cast Sean in his new fast-paced work, Kammermusik No. 2. Born in Pennsylvania, Lavery started training as a Junior Olympics swimmer at age eight, got hooked on ballet at ten, and never looked back: "I am not bothered by what I have given up. I don't miss anything else...
Cyrus Vance went to Washington insisting he would travel abroad only rarely as Secretary of State, a comment that led Henry Kissinger to wisecrack to the correspondents who regularly roamed the world with him: "You guys are going to miss me. The only shuttle you're going to see from now on is between Washington and New York...
...September to mark Carter's signing the Panama Canal treaties. Last June 23 he flew from Washington to a fund raiser in New York aboard Air Force One as a "personal friend to the President." Gregory made his twin-engined Beechcraft available to ferry Carter's mother, Miss Lillian, to a wedding in Fayetteville, N.C., in December. Trinkets from such encounters line Gregory's walls...