Word: missing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Penn will jump out to a 20-0 lead. Not to worry, though, for Harvard will mount a big fourth-quarter rally with three Greg Gizzi-to-John O'Brien bombs. The last one will come as time runs out. Bob Steinberg will line up for the PAT and miss, but there will be a yellow flag amidst the Penn celebration...
After a checkered past, the cruise missile's time has come. A descendant of Germany's V-I buzz bomb, the cruise proved ineffective when first tested by the U.S. in the 1950s. One study reported. "The average miss distance was over 1000 miles. At least one came down in the wrong hemisphere, disappearing somewhere in the interior of Brazil." In fact, the professional military never wanted it, but as technology improved through the 60s, civilian leaders saw its value. Still today it would seem that nuclear doctrine has lagged behind the ramifications of the cruise missile just...
...ears, liking the way they were joined to her head. There was something complete about them; you knew they were there for keeps. When you're a private eye, you want things to stay put." Later, in Yma Dream, Thomas Meehan offers a Carrollian nightmare in which the Misses Chaplin, Sumac, Gardner, Gabor, et al., and the Messrs. Eban, Ehrenburg, Betti, etc., are introduced to Miss Hagen, the actress: "Uta, Yma; Uta, Ava; Uta, Oona; Uta, Ona; Uta, Ida; Uta, Ugo; Uta, Abba; Uta, Ilya...
...couldn't miss him in that white suit," Betty says. "I'm sure it was him. Oh, Joe! He had a walking stick. He went strutting along...
Whether the constitutional reform is passed today or not, it will miss the issue of Black rights in South Africa, a point that will have to be settled within that nation by armed revolt, if real change is not initiated by the international community...