That's when NASA, in the midst of the Mercury space flight program, put the cabosh on our women's astronaut program.

Missing in action are those who have been dropped from the muster-roll as missing in action, and have subsequently joined again. … If the missing in action, or desertion, and the return to the company, both occur in the quarter, it is not necessary to note them; in other words, it is not necessary that the soldiers should be dropped and taken up again on the same return.

The word may be onomatopoietical for a sneezing or hacking cough, and if our object were a complete study of the Aconite Cough, it would behoove us to leave no stone unturned to learn precisely what Hahnemann meant.

The team wasn't doing well, but the new coach really turned things around.