Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...senior tutor has been associated with Lowell since he came to the University from Bennington College in 1953. He served as an assistant professor of History until this year, when he was appointed to an associate professor-ship in absentia. Ford, who is now on a year's leave of absence studying in Germany, will assume his post in the fall...
...Department had already accused Icardi and a Rochester tool designer, ex-Sergeant Carl G. LoDolce, of shooting Major Holohan and dumping his body in a lake-but it could not bring them to trial because they had been honorably discharged. The Italian courts subsequently convicted Icardi and LoDolce in absentia. Before the subcommittee, Aldo Icardi blinked through his spectacles and denied any part in the murder. Two and a half years later a Washington grand jury indicted him for perjury on the basis of his testimony...
...police began to accumulate evidence that even Moranino's fellow Communists could not talk away. Early last year the Chamber of Deputies voted to suspend Deputy Moranino's immunity. By that time Moranino had fled to Communist Prague. Last month he went on trial in absentia in Florence's court of assizes...
Ukase. In Holyoke, Mass., a bill to extend vacations of city employees was vetoed in absentia by Mayor Edward Seibel in a letter sent from Miami, where he was spending his vacation...
...minutes. But they had enough evidence to make arrests, and a new wave of bitterness swept The Netherlands. Last year Geertruida Van Moorst was sentenced to a year in jail (six months of it suspended) for helping hide the abducted Betty. Last month Geertruida and her sister Elizabeth (in absentia) and four others were brought to trial in Amsterdam for kidnaping...