Word: missing
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Critics of the arrangement point out that freshmen are deprived of contact with upperclassmen and faculty members who are masters, and therefore miss a major part of the University...
...Palmer, 38, former Baltimore Orioles pitcher and current ABC commentator and Jockey underwear model, on the recent Miss America controversy: "That's why I always posed in my underwear instead of in the nude. I was afraid they'd take away my Cy Young awards...
...holiday of whatever type at once so safe, so pleasurable, and, literally, so irresponsible. It is a walk on the wild side, but a walking tour only; a desire to see and feel and even judge, and then leave. To stay-i.e., to be serious-is to miss the point. "A perpetual holiday," said George Bernard Shaw, "is a good working definition of hell." Getting home isn't half the fun. It's all of it. -By Charles Krauthammer
...vice-presidential candidacy has created a problem for the status-conscious editors of the New York Times: how to refer to a woman who has retained her surname and is known to the whole world as Geraldine Ferraro. To the Times, which attaches the honorifics Mr., Mrs. and Miss to names, the problem could be solved by referring to her as Miss Ferraro. But the candidate, who is the mother of three children, does not feel happy with this appellation and has asked to be called Ms. or Mrs. Ferraro. Because the Times does not permit...
Most editors, it seems, now agree with Safire's argument that "it is unacceptable for journalists to dictate to a candidate that she call herself Miss or else use her married name." One way out of this thicket of titles would be for the Times simply to drop the use of honorifics altogether. But that course of action was rejected by News Editor Allan M. Siegal last week. Said he: "Everybody feels, I think unanimously, that that wouldn't sound like the New York Times...