Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enterprising person should find the concern to read Bernard Shaw, Archer or Walkeley and compare them to their modern counterparts. The poverty of mind, soul and spirit that gaps the present generation of commentators from their predecessors should lead to despair if that plight did not require a quantity absent from his present day critical scene--hope. Rather than pray and hope for a critical renaissance, the theatre world chooses to redefine the position of the critic in their midst remembering, I fear, that old truism, "to have never hoped is to never have despaired." This indifference to emotion...
...other hand, when sex cells were placed in the blood of the dormant pupa--where the hormone is absent, and where the animal is not growth--the sex cells underwent no change...
Thus, Labor might be forced to fight an election with many of last year's stalwarts absent:.Bevin dead, Bevan in opposition, Cripps very ill, and Attlee himself in sickbed. It might be the beginning...
Last week, among Labor leaders crowding the government's front bench to support the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his budget address, Bevan was conspicuously absent. Gaitskell had won Prime Minister Clement Attlee to his view that the government must economize drastically for rearmament, even to the point of making cuts in the bounty of the welfare state. Britons could not expect to save their skins, Gaitskell argued, if they considered only their teeth and eyes. He slapped a charge of 50% of cost on dentures and spectacles...
Sign-out books are kept for three purposes: to locate girls in case of emergency, to keep a voluntary check on the honor system, and to locate girls absent from roll call at a fire drill...