Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...later found out that the first time I was absent from school, my classmates spent the whole day discussing the difference between the government and the people in a capitalist country, and how they should treat an American friend. The author Felix Greene, a frequent visitor to China, told me of attending a giant anti-U.S. rally in People's Square in Peking. All around him thousands of people were chanting hysterically "Down with American imperialism. Long live the Cuban people's revolution." Yet in his immediate vicinity, many were pushing past each other in their eagerness to shake...
Miller, for one, considers such alarms trivial in the light of the Bomb. "We are now passing through a period of what might be called 'cosmic insensitivity,' " he says, "a period when God seems more than ever absent from the world and man is doomed to come face to face with the fate he has created for himself. At such a moment, the question of whether a man be guilty of using obscene language in printed books seems to me inconsequential. It is almost as if, while taking a walk through a green field, I espied a blade...
...Granville Pointer was haled before a preliminary hearing in Houston. He had no lawyer and did not cross-examine his alleged victim, who then moved to California and did not appear at Pointer's trial. Vainly invoking the confrontation clause, Pointer was convicted on the transcript of the absent victim's untested testimony. Because he could have cross-examined at the preliminary hearing, the state's highest court upheld his conviction...
...took it upon himself to change that, personally called everyone to be sure they would be there. It made a difference. Not only were there old-timers such as Fay Wray and Chester Conklin, but of the top six award winners, only Peter Ustinov, named best supporting actor, was absent...
...murder trial was interrupted for four days because the judge vanished on an alcoholic binge. Indignantly, California's now retired Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson spurred a bar-bench study that turned up a surprising number of shocking statistics. Of five judges in one county, four had been absent for as long as a year because of ill health. Despite mounting case loads, other judges thought nothing of taking three-month vacations and playing golf during court hours. Others needed psychiatric care; many were just plain aged...