Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objections set forth by most prospective enlistees would be to divide the active-duty plan into two three-month sessions. This would make the program feasible for high school and college students to complete during summer vacations, and represents about the maximum time during which an employee can be absent from his job. These dual sessions would create an increase in cost and administrative action on the part of the government, but the added expense would be more than compensated for by the assurance that better educated and perhaps more competent people would find it practical to serve...
With a connoisseur's transfixed expression, he begged a sample, tasted a spoonful, pronounced it "the best chocolate I've ever tasted." The woman let him inside, gave a rundown on her absent husband's activities...
Senior tutor John J. Conway, absent on a sabbatical this year and temporarily replaced by W. Bliss Carnochan, has a less vivacious, but just as successful, approach with House members...
...fireplace of her 14th-floor suite, opened her windows and sounded the alarm. Firemen appeared, then rushed down twelve stories to learn that a guest in a second-floor apartment, after igniting some logs in its fireplace, doused them on observing that the flue was all but clogged. The absent tenant of the lower suite: Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, 87, a great fireplace fancier, who has also been known to prohibit smoking by people in his presence...
Henry Morgan, who was scheduled to appear, could not be present. Capp thought this no great loss. S.J. Perelman was also absent. The other panelist was Alen "Candid Camera" Funt, who related humorous experiences. The moderator was James A. ("Red Mac") Maclachan, Professor...