Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked what his academic qualifications were, Van Auken innocently replied, "I won the State Reading Certificate two years in a row and the award for not being absent for five years...
...temporary receptionist at the Department of Afro-American Studies, who spoke on condition of anonymity, reported yesterday that West had been in his office on Monday, but was absent yesterday due to "an emergency...
...Graham clout further is what many experts see as a decline in the popularity of arena evangelism as other mediums usurp its religious and social functions. Competition from television and megachurches, says biographer Martin, raises the question "as to whether people will still come to that kind of thing, absent an opportunity to see Billy Graham...
...ABSENT CHAMPIONS...
...here. Elizabeth married the handsome, hot-tempered Prince Philip for love at 20. It wasn't easy for him to walk two steps behind his wife, and Elizabeth hit on a tacit compromise: she would run the monarchy, he would run the family. Elizabeth, pursuing endless duty, was often absent for months at a time, and her children were brought up by nannies with strong wills and limited imaginations. Philip, worried about the sensitive Charles, sent him off for toughening to his own spartan alma mater, Gordonstoun. Bradford's pages on Charles' beatings and bullyings are hard to read. Both...