Word: absently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gifted man. One would have expected, for example, his new position to be announced simultaneously with the news that he was quitting as Under Secretary of State. Instead, a day passed, and Bowles spent an hour with Kennedy before his new job was named. President Kennedy is not an absent-minded man, and his seems a curious way of dealing with an official of such rank, whose political inuence is by no means negligible...
...Bears have lost only one man from a team which compiled a 15-5 record last season, but their captain. Ron Famliagetti, will be absent from the lineup because of a broken ankle suffered in one of the opening practices...
However, let's not be so quick to encourage mothers to "leave the little darlings on their own." A serious factor in childhood emotional disturbance is the unnecessarily absent mother...
...Kings "the culmination of a gigantic fraud perpetuated by the film industry on the moviegoing public." Noting that the film has been criticised by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency as "theologically, historically and scripturally inaccurate," she adds: "Christ is there as a physical presence, but His spirit is absent . . . There is not the slightest possibility that anyone will derive from the film any meaningful insight into what Christ's life and sufferings signify for us ... It is obvious that Bronston, Ray and Yordan have no opinion on the subject of Christ, except that...
...There is also the quality of integrity in packaging that, when absent, can be an extremely negative factor. Nobody likes to feel cheated, and when you buy a cake of soap only to find that two-thirds of the package volume is box, wrapping and air, and one-third is soap, there is a subtle but unmistakable letdown feeling. The same applies to boxed cereals and crackers that supposedly 'settle' in shipment. Misleading packaging is bad business, and people just won't stand for it much longer...