Word: absent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview. "I think the dirts tricks people in the Nixon campaign brought about the defeat of Ed Muskie. They feared Muskie. They knew he was the toughest candidate. They did everything they could to chop him up and cut him down. And I think given an ordinary situation, and absent the dirty tricks that were played. Muskie would have been the nominee...
...Walzer's analysis of the Middle East situation, objectivity was conspicuously absent. He states that "only the United States can insist on and win concessions from the Arab states." Who will, I ask, insist on and win concessions from Israel? The Soviets? The simple fact is that for peace to come about, Israel will have to make concessions. I refer Walzer to the recent statement by Senator Charles percy (R-III)" After returning from a trip to the Middle East, percy stated that he saw no chance of a Middle East peace unless Israel draws back essentially to its frontiers...
...some four decades as chief of staff to a notoriously headstrong, frequently whimsical and incontestably brilliant commander. More than once, Mao has set Sinologists to puzzling over a sudden switch in policy or a seemingly inexplicable action. Last week he had them at it again. Why had he been absent from both the Central Committee plenum and the Congress? "I did a double take when I read the communiqué-the lack of Mao was so striking," said one senior U.S. Government analyst. "We are so used to the dominance of Chairman Mao, and then suddenly he is absent...
...signs had indicated all week that an event of major importance was taking place in China. Provincial leaders were absent from their posts; hotels in Peking were fully booked; phalanxes of shiny limousines were observed at Peking's Great Hall of the People. Finally, late last week, the announcement came from China's Hsinhua News Agency that the National People's Congress, theoretically China's top legislative body, had been meeting secretly since Jan. 13. It was the first time that the Congress had been convened in a decade. Long expected and long postponed, it produced...
...Schroder looks back on the postwar period with pride, remembering the way people who had nothing worked together and pulled themselves back up. It was exactly the kind of inspirational sense of community that had been completely absent from her life and work at Harvard...