Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point up the shift in the propaganda line, three top Kremlinites who are known more as Communists than as Russians absented themselves from the ceremonies. The absent: Stalin, Malenkov and Beria...
...sending a representative to the Business School course something a firm will do on a whim. It's so expensive, in fact, that most of the A.M.P.'s come from "blue chip" firms which can afford to lose an important executive, pay his salary while he's absent (they are invariably over $10,000), and pay his expenses at the Business School, which amount to between $1,500 and $1,800 for the 13-week period. The tuition fee alone is $800, and the executives also have to pay $15, $225275, and $350 for medical fee, room, and food respectively...
Some of them are out on the football field, scrimmaging three times a week for Mr. Jordan. Others are conspicously absent...
Towns and villages along the route greeted them with evergreen arches of welcome. Old men puffed long pipes and watched. But young men of military age were noticeably absent. They had been drafted by the Communists for a stand at Wonsan and Pyongyang...
...matter is the clearly unsatisfactory traffic control at the intersection of Cambridge, Kirkland and Broadway streets (in front of Littauer and Phillips Brooks House). With crowded traffic, crossing that intersection is indeed a terrifying and dangerous experience. While a policeman is stationed there sometimes, he is absent at other times when he is really needed. Perhaps the answer is a pedestrian push-button traffic light or perhaps longer hours for the policeman...