Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence on both sides that had marked last month's anti-Dean Rusk dustup at the New York Hilton was notably absent. Frustrated by competent cops, who refused to club them into martyrdom, the dissenters finally began to dissent among themselves. Even the presence of Lyndon Johnson at St. Patrick's Cathedral for Cardinal Spellman's funeral failed to unite them: protesters halfheartedly staked out the midtown cathedral, but soon dispersed. At Battery Park, moderates and militants clashed in a shoving match during a violent argument over whether to march on city hall...
...family dinner lasts ten to 20 minutes; some families spend as little as ten minutes a week together. Studies show that father absence has baneful effects (especially on boys), ranging from low self-esteem to hunger for immediate gratification and susceptibility to group influence. Hippies commonly flee from father-absent homes in which despairing mothers either overindulge their children or, as surrogate achievers, overpressure them. "The big thing," a college-freshman acidhead explains, "is that my father makes more of his work than it really is, leaving us the crumbs." Recalls a bitter Navy daughter: "I despise my father...
...seven bishops and one priest*- was conducted entirely in English, in accordance with recent reforms of the postconciliar church. The predominant liturgical color of the service was penitential purple rather than funeral black -reflecting the tone, attuned more toward hope than sadness or mourning, of modern Catholic funerals. Notably absent from the service was the beautiful but chilling sequence Dies...
Michel Scheinmann, playing number five for the absent John Whitbeck, stopped his strong Amherst opponent in four games. Bruce Weigand in the sixth slot and Peter Abrams in the ninth also...
...Democrats for the Fifth Republic" (De Gaulle had forbidden the use of his name "even in adjectival form" in any party title). As to the direction of the future, Pompidou and the other speakers left that vague, no doubt for fear of infringing on the prerogatives of the absent master of the Elysees. De Gaulle was, intoned Pompidou, much as if he were invoking the Holy Spirit, "here directing our policy with firmness and clairvoyance...