Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five: Vermont's Aiken, North Dakota's Langer, Oregon's Morse, Maine's Mrs. Smith and New Jersey's Alexander Smith. Five others abstained from voting; ten were absent...
...group, a furor was raised when orders to ship overseas without delay en route were issued. Many went absent without leave, but most grudgingly accepted their fate...
With notable lack of enthusiasm, the lame-duck 81st Congress limped back into Washington this week for one final fling at the legislative process. Only about 250 House members showed up, and a full 25 Senators were absent from the first roll call...
...have been flattened (actually, growth is arrested). Besides these constants, other defects are found so often in mongolism that Dr. Ingalls got a vital clue from analyzing them: the ears are usually malformed, there may be opacities in the eye lens, one of the nasal bones is usually absent, and the middle phalanx of the fifth finger is generally stunted. The clue: all these signs affect tissues which develop at about the eighth week of fetal life. In mongolism victims, the body structures formed earlier than that are usually normal, said Dr. Ingalls, and so are those formed later...
Author Wilson is a tubby, New Jersey-born Cape Codder who looks like a cross between a cantankerous professor and an absent-minded Roman emperor. At 55, with more than a quarter-century of serious writing behind him, he is best known to U.S. readers for Memoirs of Hecate County, a book of turgid intellectual short stories laced with enough sex to get them widely banned. Somerset Maugham, a more successful storywriter, whom Wilson calls a "half-trashy novelist . . . patronized by half-serious readers," considers Hecate County "so execrably bad you wonder whether it's worth reading what...