Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, some of ICCASP's growth was the result of the absent-minded alacrity with which famous people often join societies for the advancement or prevention of almost anything...
Then the State Department got busy on the newer developments. President Truman was cruising aboard the Williamsburg in southern waters; Secretary of State Byrnes was absent at the Paris treaty conference. Acting Secretary Dean Acheson got on the phone to Byrnes; Byrnes and Truman talked with each other over a transatlantic circuit. Lights burned late in the Hotel Meurice, Paris headquarters of the U.S. delegation. Through a conference session in the Luxembourg Palace, Jimmy Byrnes ignored the speakers, sat scribbling shorthand notes...
...Jake Arvey (TIME, July 22). Boss Ed dutifully praised Harry Truman as "the Old Hickory type, the shirtsleeves type, who will fight for his friends and his country." Little Jake said nothing, sat making mental note of the empty seats from which delegates from 75 downstate counties were distressingly absent...
...Orozco contributed a twisted mass of bayonets and struggling bodies entitled The Trench, which looked like a great many he had done before. (His best-known Trench was painted in 1923.) Fat, fast-talking Old Master Diego Rivera, who can always be counted on for a surprise, was surprisingly absent. He had been appointed a juror, and resigned at the last minute because "too little attention is given to architecture. I believe architecture is the most important of all the plastic arts. And second, I think too much prominence is given to the older artists...
...tall, blonde Helene Thimig Reinhardt, who traveled from New York to play her old role of Faith in the English morality play Everyman, originally staged in Salzburg by her late, great husband, Max Reinhardt. Yet to appear: Conductor John Barbirolli, Yehudi Menuhin and Grace Moore. Conspicuously absent was Austria's No. 1 conductor, arrogant 37-year-old Herbert von Karajan, a Salzburg boy who made good in Germany under the sponsorship of Hermann Göring. The Allied Council in Vienna turned him down at the last minute...