Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not respect the colored race genuinely, because it does not command respect. Given this, it is natural that he be smug about his eschewal of overt discrimination. He passes up the latter for the luxury of apparent charity. Conscience is the motivation only because real respect is absent. He will not surrender his smugness; there is no reason...
Next in the U.S. reaction was what was called the "empty-chair" approach. That would mean proceeding with plans for Atlantic partnership and European union as if De Gaulle's France were merely absent from the room. But there is one fatal flaw: France is not absent, and it is difficult to imagine any sort of economic, military or political plan for Western Europe that does not need, and must not seek to accommodate, France's presence...
Well, that's one way to give the customers a kick. But there are others, and Walt Disney exploits almost all of them in this insuperably sappy sequel to The Absent Minded Professor. Remember him? His name is Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) and he teaches chemistry at Medfield College. One day he blows up his lab and in the debris discovers flubber-the word means flying rubber, and the substance it describes repeals the law of gravity. In Son of Flubber he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and shoots it through Big Flubbertha (a plastic howitzer that looks...
Conspicuously absent in the Kennedy bill is any proposal for federal college scholarships, which irk conservative Congressmen. To meet the need for semiprofessional technicians, states would get $50 million a year in grants for building more public junior colleges. All colleges would get $1 billion in federal construction loans over three years...
...wage question could be settled if, for example, Mayor Wagner revived Mayor La Guardia's old "locked room" policy--locking negotiators up together in a hotel room until they come to an agreement. For the wage issue only requires sound and skillful negotiating. However, the Mayor has been characteristically absent from the stage of his city's major drama...