Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here it is the day after election and I've been marked absent, Vag mused. I never got a chance to Discuss the Merits of the Democratic/Republican Administration, pick one, five minutes. I wasn't permitted to argue the Advantages of Changing Horses in Midstream, with Special Reference to Your Reading of the Past Four Years. I wasn't able to answer, in a series of well-executed, concise, X's, the biggest poser of them all: Truman or Dewey...
This afternoon when the Band plays "Wintergreen," a touch of sadness shall be mingled with the cheers. While some folks whistle, others will bow their heads as a tribute to the man who was once among us but who is all too absent in this election year. For if the name of John P. Wintergreen (formerly "for President") were on next Tuesday's ballot with Mr. Truman, Mr. Dewey and Mr. Wallace, the American political scene would come alive, and it would once more seem that "posterity is just around the corner...
...will be absent from his Economics courses for three weeks while he attends the informal conferences at the invitation of Robert Marjolin, secretary-general of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation...
...project is already under way, a promising intramural sports program. This has been absent in a great big way--to the indirect detriment of House athletics. The effects of a vigorous sports program in the Yard should show up next year in the Houses, when an athletically-minded '52 moves south...
...Each leap ends on a blade of grass which turns out to be a flimsy pretext requiring a jump to a new but equally unstable position . . . The long process of proposal and counterproposal, of promises made and withdrawn, made it plain that good faith-that prerequisite to settlement-was absent from the Soviet mind...