Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting full of "firsts." It was the first time a Prime Minister of Britain had ever addressed the Trades Union Congress. When bulky Foreign Secretary "Ernie" Bevin, absent for the first time in 30 years (because he was attending the Council of Foreign Ministers in London), sent immaculate, briefcased Ivone Kirkpatrick to "observe" for him, it was the first time the Foreign Office had ever set such an official seal on the T.U.C. And the 900 delegates (representing some 7,000,000 workers) packed into Blackpool's ornate Winter Gardens had their own prideful "first": never before...
...atomic bomb, said Brandt, "has proved there is no such thing as the absent-minded professor. When the scholar decided to turn over to the Government his knowledge of the atom, he at once assumed responsibility for the kind of Government which would use the atomic bomb. And since the Government is the people, he destroyed once and for all his right to ignore the people...
Because it has a waiting list of 30 servicemen, the Canteen has a rigid rule: anybody who misses two lessons is dropped. Last week a sailor who had been absent twice and a soldier who had missed three lessons asked for, and got, reinstatement. Their excuse for being away: they had been to Potsdam...
...Bull" Warren's anathemas was late-comers to his classes; rather would he have a student be absent than come late and interrupt. But one day a man in Navy uniform, carrying a bulky bag of books, did come in late and step- ping over scores of legs, reached the long-empty seat in the middle of the room...
Absenteeism has already been reported on the organized sports front and several of the athletic directors feel that the new Freshmen are not aware that cuts have already been meted out to the absent offenders. The stress that cut athletic appointments meet with the same discipline as do missed appointments in the classrooms...