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Word: absently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain, is all the reader will give it: "I figure eight seconds is the absolute maximum time anyone should have." Talking balloons almost never drift above the heads of his characters, who are generally so identifiable that they need no name tags; his captions are either commendably short or absent altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: One of the Few | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...hated police hiding indoors, 70 relatives of the Shinwon victims plucked up their nerve, made a pilgrimage to the mass grave. Then they set to work clearing away underbrush and Setting up gravestones. Suddenly they were swept by an impulse for revenge. Unable to take reprisals against the absent Colonel Kim, they marched to the house of Park Yung Bo, who had been mayor in Colonel Kim's time, and as the owner of a rice-winery was still the town's richest man. Dragging Park out of bed. they accused him of informing to Kim, of embezzling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Incident at Shinwon | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...prosperous bidders, who came mostly from the U.S. "It was.'' says London Dealer Geoffrey Agnew, "a slaughter." But the slaughter is now over: Britons have not only been bidding princely sums to keep their Old Masters at home, they have even been bringing some that have been absent for decades back across the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Return of the Natives | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...sexual power wanes along with his other powers. It also depends on the strength of his sexual drive earlier in life. Without exception, the people who rated their drive strong in youth rated it moderate in old age; the people who rated it weak in youth found it absent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Oldsters & Sex | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...Western Europe; and Loudon. Three are British: John Philip Berkin, 53, the oil coordinator; Harold ("Tim") Wilkinson. 57, in charge of North America. Far East, Australasia and United Kingdom-Eire; and Frederick Stephens, 56, legal matters and the Middle East, who takes over the chairmanship when Loudon is absent. Shellmen agree that their Britons incline more to flair and intuition, their Dutchmen to patience and stolidity. Loudon presides over the mix. If he favors a project, it is likely to go through; if he frowns on it, its chances are poor. Says he: "There is always plenty of give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Diplomats of Oil | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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