Word: missing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...goal last year, blew the Quakers' best chance to get on the scoreboard late in the first quarter. A 28-yard kick, a yard longer than the last one he booted against the Crimson, would mean a 3-0 lead, but he drilled it underneath the crossbar--his ninth miss in 11 field goal tries this season...
...walls and seats. On the plane's silver fuselage a Miami gate agent had scribbled, "I was the last agent to close the door on a 707." But at J.F.K. another agent crossed out that message and wrote, "Sorry, you lose." Said Pilot Shaun Shattuck, 44: "I will miss the 707 terribly. I grew up with it. It's been a reliable and troubleless friend...
...grew up to be President, she bequeathed a toothy grin, piercing blue eyes and, as she put it, a "feeling for the underdog." To the rest of the nation, Lillian Carter-"Miss Lillian," as she was universally known-passed on a refreshing dose of down-home sass and straightforward irreverence. "There was really nothing outstanding about Jimmy as a boy," she once said of her successful firstborn, contending that Daughter Gloria, two years younger, was actually the smartest of her brood. And in 1976 she admonished her candidate-son Jimmy to "quit that stuff about never telling a lie." Lillian...
...Rose Kennedy produced a clan in which duty and leadership were expected, Miss Lillian expected only, but urgently, that her children be themselves. It had been her way. The fourth of nine children, Bessie Lillian Gordy was born in the southwest Georgia town of Richland, where her postmaster father taught her racial tolerance early on. When the family moved to Plains, Lillian became a nurse, and shocked some neighbors by treating poor blacks as well as whites. She was, she acknowledged, probably "the most liberal woman in the county, maybe the state." In 1923 she married James...
...Miss Lillian contributed to Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential campaign mainly by staying home in Plains and taking care of Granddaughter Amy, whom she called "my heart." But she also found time for speeches and TV interviews, charming the public with her ingenuous candor. That outspokenness continued after Carter's election, though her off-the-cuff comments sometimes could be embarrassing to the increasingly beleaguered President. During the Iranian hostage crisis, she blurted that she would like to have the Ayatullah Khomeini assassinated...