Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think that we cannot ask the Americans to be absent from Asia after asking her for 20 years to be present in Europe," declared Bartoli, who is political editor of II Mundo...
Love & Death. Marlene may have been carried away. The poems are the usual Hemingway blending of love and death. While Papa was sorry to be absent from Mary, he was even sorrier, it appears, to miss the raptures of combat. Love gets lost in the shuffle...
...public that the Johnson Administration would seek an increase in the $1.25-an-hour minimum wage, the President commented testily: "I see by the papers I have a minimum-wage program." But when Johnson's labor message got to Congress a request for a wage hike was conspicuously absent. When Humphrey recently returned from Paris after a cordial 80-minute conversation with Charles de Gaulle, which seemed like a considerable diplomatic achievement, word from the White House was that the Humphrey-De Gaulle talk didn't amount to anything...
Never on Sunday. A hostel, police are quick to point out, is not a house. Houses of prostitution were banned in Germany in 1927, but prostitution itself is condoned. Absent from the hostel are the pimps and madams of the house. In Düsseldorf's cupboard of tarts, the girls pay only for room, board and services, just as they would in a normal hotel. Moreover, their hostel is a place of immaculate order; noisy guests are ordered to leave, and drunks are not allowed in. In Stuttgart's eight-year-old Drei-Farben hostel, business...
...using every tic of her tragicomic trade in The Victim, an offbeat ode to a jealous wife who harangues her husband out of the house. When his best friend (Jean-Pierre Cassel) stops by, she pours out her troubles while he paws out his sympathy. Result: an orgy of absent-minded surrender...