Word: absently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Absent from the ceremony were the Israeli, Yugoslav and U.S. ambassadors. Israel withdrew its ambassador when Waldheim was elected. U.S. Ambassador Ronald Lauder was attending his mother's birthday party in Paris...
Local officials were notably absent from the stampissuing ceremony, however, and there was some uneasiness in the mostly black city over the near veneration of a book that stereotypes blacks. Butterfly McQueen, 75, who played the movie role of Prissy, Miss Scarlett's maid, showed up with tongue firmly in cheek. Handed an album of the stamps, she repeated her most famous GWTW line: "Miss Scarlett, I don't know nothin' about birthin' babies...
...several patients in whom the symptoms of heart failure disappeared following treatment and have remained absent since," said Dr. William Grossman, one of the researchers...
...parties comprise the heart of the 350th ceremony, the convocations are the soul. Continuing throughout the ceremony, the three separate events will feature Prince Charles and other dignitaries, bringing large crowds and the press corp to Cambridge from all over the world and requiring elaborate security arrangements. Conspicuously absent, however, will be President Reagan, who declined an invitation to attend earlier this spring citing his "very busy" schedule...
...anything to think about. And that's not good enough to keep the viewer going either. The best one can say for Cobra is that it is too dopey to pose any threat to the highest values of the republic. May the rest of the movie summer be similarly absent of malice...