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Word: absently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian dagger plunged into the back." Councillors jumped up, shouted their pieces, and vented emotional steam. Two opposition councillors, Swan and Chester A. Higley, made an attempt to get the council to reconsider its action, but the try proved feeble; reconsideration was defeated 5 to 2 with two absent...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: The Atkinson Story: A Change in City Reform | 9/19/1952 | See Source »

...Italian dagger plunged into the back." Councillors jumped up, shouted their pieces, and vented emotional steam. Two opposition councillors, Swan and Chester A. Higley, made an attempt to get the council to reconsider its action, but the try proved feeble; reconsideration was defeated 5 to 2 with two absent...

Author: By Philip M. Cronin, | Title: The Atkinson Story: A Change in City Reform | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...tell that things were going to be very different this year after a first glance at Soldiers Field, on the very sunny September 4 morning. For besides the gaping hole in the North side of the stands where once the steel stands stood, there was an air of confidence, absent since 1949 when Harvard under Art Valpey was a strong pre-season choice...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

...made his first public appearance since Evita's death to dedicate a big new suburban hospital named for her. As he arrived, the crowd automatically took up the old chant "Perón-Evita!" Then, in the first address of the ceremony, Peronista official Lorenzo Garcia invoked the absent Evita with a new phrase. His opening words: "Our mother who art in heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Maternoster | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...transplanted it for the festival season, and booked only two big outside stars: the Metropolitan Opera's Baritone George London (a commanding Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro) and Tenor Ramon Vinay (in Otello). Salzburg's musical stalwarts of other years (Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini) were absent. But the hall was fuller than ever and Salzburg had its most profitable season since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strauss's Last Premiere | 8/25/1952 | See Source »

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