Word: absentia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completed his cleanup of the country's legislatures by forcing 63 liberals out of the Czech National Council, the parliamentary body for the Czech-speaking part of the country. Previously, liberals in the federal Parliament had been replaced by hardliners. Among those expelled in absentia from the Czech Council last week were Economist Ota Sik and Kafka Expert Eduard Goldstücker, former president of the Writers' Union, both of whom have gained refuge in the West. Said Dubček's onetime Culture and Education Minister, Ćestm...
...garbage trucks, rising rents and the high crime rate. He has somehow managed to endure a campaign of catcalls and criticism. It was obviously the last straw when a radio chatter host named Barry Gray, awaiting Lindsay's overdue appearance on his nighttime show, began berating him in absentia for city ills ranging from street violence to pavement potholes...
...ground that Cornell could hardly act as an impartial judge of "political action" against the university itself. When the committee threatened to suspend the six unless they showed up, the blacks turned the tables-they cited an obscure by-law empowering the committee to try errants in absentia. In sum, they claimed, the threat of suspension without a trial was in itself illegal as well as racist...
...Faculty of Law because the government suspected them of being acquaintances of a certain Mr. Nguyen dang Trung. Tien Tuyen, the South Vietnamese Army newspaper reported on August 4 of last year that this Mr. Nguyen dang Trung, who was president of the Saigon Student Union, was sentenced in absentia to ten years of hard labor because the Saigon Student Union had published a newspaper that favored peace and therefore "weakened the anticommunist spirit of the army and the people." Other sources close to Mr. Trung say that he may have been done away with. Tin Toung, a Buddhist magazine...
...calculate the amount of back pay that the U.S. might owe him: he reached more than $30,000, then quit figuring. In fact, he was considerably short-changing himself because he assumed that he was still a first lieutenant, not realizing that his promotion schedule rolled on in absentia. His back-pay total will thus probably come closer to $50,000. "I just couldn't believe that I was a first lieutenant and now I wake up a major, like a modern Rip Van Winkle," said Rowe, now 30. Presumably the $20,000 in extra pay will provide some...