Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Princess Fadia, 21, youngest daughter of Egypt's ex-king Farouk and his first wife Farida; and Pierre Orloff, 26, Swiss geologist, well-born son of an exiled White Russian; in a civil ceremony at which Farouk was noticeably absent (he wanted Fadia to marry a Moslem, not a Russian Orthodox); in London...
There is the one about absent-minded Bachelor Great-Granduncle
...York City is, among other things, a small welfare state. It carries no less than 500,000 people on its welfare rolls-a number roughly equal to the whole population of Denver-ranging from homeless children to the helpless aged to mothers of large broods with absent and often unknown fathers. To support these people the city spends more than $1,100,000 every day in funds contributed by the federal, state and city governments. A hardy local economy scarcely benefits these chronically poor; instead of decreasing, the list of welfare cases grows by about 200 names...
...President's inaugural speech remains a mystery. Presidential aides Bill Moyers and Richard Goodwin were absent from most of the pre-inaugural festivities. These two men, along with the President, have been chiefly responsible for the speech, and they were said to be at work on it late last night...
...thirty-three opponents, twenty-seven have served Harvard as athletes. Twenty-one belong to clubs. Twenty have worked on House Committees, Political Organizations, or HCUA. Such emblems of service are conspicuously absent from Miss Levine's credentials. To make matters worse she is a female...