Word: missing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roosevelt's enormous energy found a new outlet in the fall of his junior year--Miss Alice Hathaway Lee of Chestnut Hill. He courted her as energetically as he did everything else which interested him. "See that girl?" he had said at a Pudding function. "I am going to marry her. She won't have me, but I am going to have...
...interest in the natural sciences waned. He wrote to his good friend Harry Minot, who had accompanied him on many a naturalist expedition, that he had done almost no collecting in the summer of 1879. In 1880, he added: "I write to you to announce my engagement to Miss Alice Lee; but do not speak of it till Monday. I have been in love with her for nearly two years now, and have made everything subordinate to winning her; so you can perhaps understand a change in my ideas as regards science...
...like a lot of others. A lot of these guys hit high and hard, and there's a big pop when their shoulder pads bounce off the guy they're after. The pop gets the fans all shuddering, but the poppers are the guys who miss the tackles. Joe just doesn't miss...
...their old movie days met and fell in love at the RKO Studios, were well on their way last week to owning a big memento of their pre-TV past: the RKO lot itself. As bosses of TV's thriving Desilu Productions (I Love Lucy, Our Miss Brooks, December Bride), the couple offered about $6,000,000 for RKO's 15-stage lot in Hollywood plus its eleven-stage studios in Culver City and its valuable stock footage library. The deal-perhaps the most dramatic example yet of TV's upstaging the movies in their own backyard...
Like the plant of Miss Gertrude Stein...