Word: missing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to have two gigantic ships pass in the night because of failed communication," Bush said. "I just didn't want to--in this time of dynamic change--miss something, something that I might get better first-hand from Mr. Gorbachev...
Last year, after fire destroyed their home outside Canton, Miss., Willie Anderson and seven of her children moved into a rented shack. The place was a horror, with no electricity or running water, rotting walls papered with newsprint, and gaping holes in the tin roof that allowed the rain to pour through. "Once a snake came up under the stove, and we got big rats in there all the time," recalled Anderson, 47, a big, strapping woman in a flowered blouse. "I couldn't wait to get away...
...Ford. Stevens hesitantly agrees. Running Darlington Hall with a staff of four, which Mr. Farraday has requested, as opposed to the 17 assistants Stevens once supervised, has been hard on his nerves. A drive to the West Country might do him good. Besides, Stevens has received a letter from Miss Kenton, the housekeeper who resigned in 1936 to be married, revealing that she has left her husband. He will see her in Cornwall, encourage her to return to her old position and thus combine pleasure with business...
...surprise. An earthquake is hidden from one moment to the next, as the future is hidden, as God is hidden. The event does not announce itself as most other disasters do, as a hurricane does, or a flood, or even an erupting volcano, which is after all hard to miss as dangerous geography. A plague too arrives more slowly. That is no consolation, but at least the mind and nerves are prepared. The event proceeds in a logical continuum of developing bad news...
...Kirkland who feel uncomfortable with their surroundings. It hurts athletes who lose the chance to live in a maximally diverse house. It hurts students who would otherwise like to live in Kirkland, but who are discouraged by the stereotype. And it hurts students in other houses who might miss the chance to share a house with athletes...