Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting place. Last year, a girl working on a novel used the back room of his shop. Standing on Gordon's bookshelves are the drawings and water-colors of whatever unknown artist he happens to be be-friending. Some of his customers have keys themselves and if he is absent they will open the store for him, leaving money collected on a convenient table. Almost any customer may be put in charge, briefly, when the owner decides to leave for an afternoon cup of coffee...
...closed doors, the meeting droned on for more than three hours. Western Conference Boss Frank Brewster (who was sentenced to a year in prison last month for contempt of Congress), long a Hoffa enemy, wanted to ram through an endorsement of Hoffa. Dave Beck, chins-deep in trouble,* was absent, but the word was around that what little power he has left will be with Hoffa in the hope that President Hoffa would help to make Beck president emeritus (at $50,000 a year...
...gold beads; turbaned Alhaji Ahmadu, leader of the Northern People's Congress; and Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, who made a spectacular entrance clad in a bright blue satin blouse, a draped skirt with a ten-yard train and a straw boater bedecked with 2-ft.-high feathers. Conspicuously absent was Eastern Leader Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the flashy, U.S.-educated Ibo tribesman who had fancied himself rather than Balewa as the Federation's first Prime Minister...
...went to the post for the children's race at Saint-Pierre-Sur-Dives a two-to-one favorite. Steering her half-sized sulky and Shetland pony Conga, she caught the inside rail and held it, finished a three-length winner. Her purse: two kilos of hard candy. Absent from the railbirds: her horse-loving papa, who was 30 miles away at Deauville with Fiancee Bettina, watching his nag Shut Up dog it home fourth...
...conference they had practically convinced themselves that there is really no problem. Summed up the University of Chicago's Dr. Stephen Rothman: "I do not know of a single instance where a man's social happiness or professional advancement has been hindered because of thinning or absent hair. Think of Julius Caesar and President Eisenhower...