Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patently parallel, the two affairs reiterate a favorite Bergman theme: love is an illusory, ephemeral phenomenon; understanding is possible only where the illusion of love is absent. The characteristically expressive acting typical of Bergman's more or less regular troupe serves to illustrate the theme. Miss Andresson's versatile transformation from the tomboy of A Lesson in Love to the model in Dreams is particularly note-worthy, and Miss Dahlbeck exhibits control like very few actresses around...
...even dispatched a Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, acting as majority leader in the absence of Montana's Mike Mansfield, considered ordering the sergeant at arms to place absent Senators under arrest and bring them to the chamber. The quorum was achieved only at 3 p.m., five hours after the session started, when North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton Young, still wearing his windbreaker, arrived from a Virginia golf course to round out a quorum...
...Food fats are classed by chemists as saturated if they have hydrogen atoms hooked onto the carbon atoms all along the molecular chain, as mono-unsaturated if hydrogen atoms are missing at one point in the chain, and as polyunsaturated if they are absent at two or more points. Most saturated fats are solid at room temperature, and come from meat or milk. The polyunsaturated fats, notably linoleic acid, are found mainly in fish, marine mammals, and such plant extracts as safflower, sunflower, cottonseed, soybean, corn and peanut oils. Only ten years ago, safflower oil was made mostly from imported...
...absent Igor had made a piano roll of the concerto's first movement in 1925, was in Europe at the time of this pianistic hanky-panky and missed hearing Stravinsky playing Stravinsky (see Music...
Franco's officials have arrested perhaps two hundred of the miners themselves, but in general have tried to avoid force. The tough Guardia Civil is noticeably absent; in the mining areas, the grey-uniformed civilian security police are in charge-and as one Spaniard put it, they do not have the "smell" of the tough old order. Moving gently on the money question, the government at week's end granted 5% to 10% pay boosts to almost half the nation's miners...