Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heels of this news came the announcement that T.V., absent from public life since his resignation as Premier last spring (TIME, March 10), was back in harness. It was a time when China needed all the able leaders she could find. T.V.'s new job: Governor of his native Kwangtung Province. There, he would be able to get some first-hand experience in governing a province-which might prove quite a job, since it has been reported that there is a separatist movement in Kwangtung. He also might find time to squelch smuggling...
...land. Less people. More elbowroom." Some thought they would have a better chance than in the U.S. to start businesses of their own. Many had been taken with the Australian climate and pace of living. Wrote ex-G.I. George Mason: "[Down there], Babbitts and go-getters are conspicuously absent. The people are happy, and in no hurry to slaughter themselves...
...Legionnaire Harry Truman did not think he could make it this year. With him absent, Legionnaires planned their biggest cheers for Chief of Staff Ike Eisenhower. There were already rumors that Legion bigwigs would seize the occasion to get an Eisenhower-for-President bandwagon rolling, under Legion auspices. If they did, politicking might turn out to be almost as much fun as fanny-pinching...
Nowhere did Prestes explain why he had been absent, or mention rumors that he had been in Russia. The cub reporter and everybody else forgot to ask him where he had been. Best guess was that he had stayed right in Rio, organizing new front parties for his illegal Communists to take over...
Poland, Bulgaria, Absent...