Word: absently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House. Quick to feel the heat were U.S. Congressmen. House Republicans, joined by about a dozen Democrats, squeezed through a "Hoover amendment" which would have sheared OPA of almost all its powers over food, handed them all to the Secretary of Agriculture. Administration Democrats finally rounded up their absent members, forced a reconsideration. But at a boiling session, to the howls of "We want meat," the Republican dissident-Democrat combination forced through a second amendment giving the Secretary of Agriculture unprecedented food control...
...Parents often punish children severely for expressing perfectly normal instincts, especially sex. "The child would not be normal were they absent [but] frequently we see in the childhood of the alcoholic the basis for ego weakness in the false and erroneous attitudes fostered by the parent toward even the presence of these feelings." The child must learn that these instincts are not cause for shame or guilt. ¶"If the child has these pontifical parental attitudes held over him with a rigid denial of freedom to question ... or if too early or too consistently he has been dominated by uncompromising...
...days later Churchill handed His Majesty a list of his new Ministers, all familiar Tory faces but for a few equally familiar National Liberals and nonparty men who had served in the coalition.* Conspicuously absent from this "caretaker" government were Labor and Liberal stalwarts like Clement Attlee (formerly Deputy Prime Minister) and Sir Archibald Sinclair (formerly Minister for Air), who preferred to cross the Commons floor to the opposition benches. The government which had brought Britain through the war frorn the dark days of Dunkirk to the Nazi surrender at Reims, had become past history. Their future government...
John Maitland Brewer Churchill, Jr. '47 replaces Philip M. Stern '47 as President as the result of elections held Sunday evening. Stern, who will graduate on June 28, has held the position since February 9 of this year. Churchill, absent from the College this term, served for a short time after his election to the Network in August 1943 as Business Manager, and has been Technical Director since July...
...story develops, it becomes clear that the absent Benny is a five-star heel, whose only possible usefulness to the community is martial. This fact and the picture itself suddenly become interesting when a wire informs the small-town bigwigs that they had bred a hero: Benny has killed 100-odd Japanese, died in the act, and posthumously been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...