Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be glory enough for all. Back home in Italy, grave old (80) President Einaudi, immersed in a copy of the Economist, dropped the magazine and leaped out of his chair in glee. "It's like a flower in the buttonhole," glowed Turin's La Stampa. In absentia, Professor Desio, a reserve officer in the Alpini, was promoted from captain to major...
...established Cèline's literary reputation; but World War II, in which he became a vigorous Nazi collaborator, made him a social pariah, who had to run for his life after the Liberation. On Feb. 21, 1950, a French court sentenced Cèline, in absentia, to national degradation for life. He has since received amnesty...
...members of the government's Revolutionary Command Council, the Aboul Fath brothers were convicted of "aiming to destroy the government," "spreading propaganda abroad" hostile to the regime, and attempting to corrupt a government employee. Sentence: a padlock on Al Misri, ten years in prison for Mahmoud, tried in absentia, a suspended 15-year sentence for his brother, plus confiscation of more than $1,000,000 of the Aboul Fath property...
Major General William F. Dean, former 24th Infantry Division commander, who got the Medal of Honor in absentia after his capture outside Taejon in 1950, will get some news from Washington to brighten his grey life in prison camp: President Eisenhower nominated Dean (a Regular Army brigadier general with a temporary two-star rank) for permanent major general...
Oscar for 1952's "best actor" was presented in absentia to durable Gary Cooper for his performance as the cow-town marshal in High Noon. In Manhattan, Broadway's Shirley Booth, whose slatternly housewife in Come Back, Little Sheba was her first screen role, stumbled excitedly up the steps to the stage. But the Hollywood audience, watching the big-screen TV, also saw her gracefully walk off with a well-deserved award for "best actress...