Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Holt, the great, hairy headmaster, would roar: "Get out of this room! I'm sick of the sight of you! Report yourself on detention for a month. If you're absent from chapel, the prefects will take care of it. Get out of my sight!" A dozen of the best would be the lot of Hoiden Caulfield, just for not believing a lot of crummy stuff about...
Perhaps the most striking feature of Harlem's virtual occupation is that the vast majority of the police are white. The negro patrolman is not absent but he is a signficant minority...
Singularly absent are the spunky, if not necessarily accomplished, avant-gardists who are much whispered about in Russia. As Entrepreneur Estorick puts it, "We don't want to make martyrs of these guys...
...have been strained ever since his escape to England from occupied France in 1940. Most of all, he is still irked at the Allies' refusal to allow Free French troops to join the Normandy invasion. In memory of that snub, France's President and his leading ministers were conspicuously absent from ceremonies honoring the 20th anniversary of the D-day landings...
...replied: "I think that in life more people have problems in their own lives than others realize. And what we have to have the courage to do is to face those problems honestly inside ourselves." In a speech at the University of Portland, he asked, "What do the absent advocate? Where do the silent stand?" He clambered to the top of a truck on a rainswept street to tell a knot of curious bystanders: "If you vote Friday, remember my name. It's Nelson Rockefeller. Thanks, folks." His tiny audience stood huddled and shivering. But Rocky's warmth...