The workload proved excessive, and in 1955 on return to Toyama Prefecture for Japanese New Year the pair missed all the deadlines for their serials.

Having missed just 13 games in nine seasons at United and with 175 consecutive appearances to his name, Chilton requested a rest from first team action in early 1955.

Having missed a season due to national service and university studies, Craig returned to first-class cricket in 1955 – 56, earning himself a place in the 1956 Ashes touring squad.

He was attendant druid from 1947 to 1957, and only narrowly missed election to become archdruid in 1955.

He then missed the 1954 and 1955 seasons serving a stint in the United States Army, where he pitched for the Fort Carson baseball squad.

He missed part of the 1955 season when stricken with a nonparalytic form of polio but returned in 1956.

In addition, a special award was given to Bob ( Bevo ) Nordmann, the 6-foot-10 center who missed much of the season because of a knee injury.

The Falcons finished the 2001 season with a record of 7-9 and missed the playoffs.

It is also representative of the evolution and direction of our team .” During the 2003 preseason Michael Vick broke his leg and missed the first twelve games of the season.

( Ojeda missed most of the season, and would retire the following year ).

The following season Yzerman scored 62 goals, but the team missed the playoffs ( which as of 2012 is the most recent time they did so ).

2007 was a much better season for Essendon, in which, despite significant wins over Adelaide ( twice ), Fremantle, St Kilda, Sydney ( by one point in Sydney ), the previous year's premiers West Coast ( their second successive win by a solitary point ) and Carlton, they missed the finals for the third year running.

The next season they missed out on a second consecutive promotion, finishing 3rd behind Tottenham Hotspur and Stoke City.

He missed all but 19 games of the 1941 season, the three full seasons that followed, and most of 1945 to World War II military service and missed most of another season with a broken wrist.

A dramatic season end included wins in 10 of their last 12 games, but the Astros missed a playoff appearance when they lost the final game of the season to the Atlanta Braves.

He missed a season and, when he returned to the Fulham side, was not quite the same player.

In the team's final game of the regular season against the Atlanta Falcons, needing a win to earn a playoff berth, the Jaguars caught a bit of luck when Morten Andersen missed a 30 yard field goal with less than a minute remaining that would have given the Falcons the lead.

Center Brad Meester missed the first two months of the season and guard Chris Naeole, signed to the roster mid-season in response to these injuries, was injured in pregame warmups before playing a single snap.

Following a 2006 season in which they missed the playoffs, Lamar Hunt sold the club in August 2006 to OnGoal, LLC, a six-man ownership group led by Cerner Corporation co-founders Neal Patterson and Cliff Illig, a local group committed to keeping the Wizards in Kansas City.

Despite the good news off the field, and winning four out of five games to start the season, the Wizards just missed out on a playoff berth with a loss to the New York Red Bulls on the final day, finishing with a 10 – 14 – 8 record.

Stein was badly injured in a car crash and missed most of the season.

After kicker Gary Anderson, who had just completed the first perfect regular season in NFL history ( not missing a single extra point or field goal attempt the entire year ), missed a 38-yard field goal attempt with less than 2 minutes remaining, the Falcon's ensuing drive tied the game.

Ace closer Rollie Fingers missed the playoffs due to a torn muscle in his throwing arm that not only kept him out for the entire playoffs but also would have him miss the entire 1983 season.

The Mets missed the playoffs on the last day of the regular season in 2007 and 2008 and posted a losing record from 2009-2011.

They were out of contention until the 1997 season when they narrowly missed the playoffs.

He appeared in 98 games during the strike-shortened 1994 season, and later missed nearly three months of the 1995 season after shoulder surgery on May 31.

Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

Broca missed these lesions because his studies did not dissect the brains of diseased patients, so only the more temporal damage was visible.

A number of opportunities to fire at capital ships had been missed during the War, because destroyers had expended all their torpedoes in an initial salvo.

The pilot attempted but missed because of the large differences in speed.

Cronje missed the first Test of the series with Pakistan because of a knee injury.

But the accusation was untrue: Jerzy and Kiki had been invited to stay with Tate the night of the Manson murders, and they missed being killed as well only because they stopped in New York en route from Paris because their luggage had been misdirected.

Robinson missed the game because manager Walter Alston decided to play Gilliam at second and Don Hoak at third base.

Hewitt had at this point lost to the eventual champion at seven consecutive Grand Slam tournaments he played ( he missed the 2005 French Open because of injury ).

To this end, Gould later commented that " Most of our paleontological colleagues missed this insight because they had not studied evolutionary theory and either did not know about allopatric speciation or had not considered its translation to geological time.

Moreover, thanks to that slow start, 1968 would also prove to be the only season out of Clemente's final thirteen in which he did not make the NL All-Star squad ( he was selected in ' 72 but missed the game because of a heel injury ).

Geri Halliwell had seen the ad but went skiing in Spain and missed the audition because her face got sunburnt.

On that play, the 49ers only had 10 players on the field because LB Keena Turner, who was seriously ill with the chicken pox during Super Bowl week, missed a call to enter the game.

Then after Washington was forced to punt, Bills running back Thurman Thomas missed the first two plays of Buffalo's first drive because he misplaced his helmet.

As he put it at the beginning of his Negative Dialectics ( 1966 ), philosophy is still necessary because the time to realise it was missed.

Grace missed a large part of the 1879 season because he was doing the final practical for his medical qualification and, for the first time since 1869, he did not complete 1000 runs, though he did take 105 wickets.

Internet initiatives to close open relays have ultimately missed their intended purpose because spammers have created distributed botnets of zombie computers that contain malware with mail relaying capability.

However, because No's heart was on the right-hand side of his body ( dextrocardia ), the bullet missed his heart and he survived.

The crew lands on an abandoned Megaliner cruising the Vavatch ocean, hoping to salvage its powerful laser weapons before the Orbital is destroyed, but one of the crew is killed soon after landing because he missed the briefing warning them that their antigravity devices would not work there, and more die when the ship crashes into a massive ice wall, which Kraiklyn had mistaken for a cloud bank, although Horza later discovers that Kraiklyn and several others managed to escape.

Her lawsuit was dismissed because she had missed the deadline under the statute of limitations.

Late in the season, with the Heat well out of any type of realistic playoff contention, head coach Pat Riley missed two games because he went to scout certain NCAA basketball conference tournament games, to prepare in the likely event that the Heat received the number 1 or 2 pick in the 2008 draft.

Despite O ' Neal's presence, the Magic missed the 1993 NBA Playoffs because they were tied with the Indiana Pacers for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference with the Pacers holding the tiebreaker.

Recording data and image processing is superior to real-time work because subtle anomalies often missed by the operator ( especially in magnetically noisy areas ) can be correlated between lines, shapes and clusters better defined.