Word: absently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pool, fully clothed, when he arrives at a party. And the ways in which his women demonstrate their sureness, so different from the men's limpness, are as varied as they are inescapable. Perhaps the most startling is the moment when Carmel Seaver, the 17-year-old in "Grapette," absent-mindedly begins to rinse a dish in the narrator's sink and is brought up short by his polite protest...
Reagan's prosaic and traditional Democratic opponents were nearly obliterated. Walter Mondale made it into the paper on Page 3, appearing in Detroit at a Hispanic conference. John Glenn's smiling visage was totally absent. The Washington Post is certainly not everything, but it is a fever chart of sorts...
...Shakespearean perception; Peter De Vries' "Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign that something is eating us" belongs with the best of the Edwardians. Hannah Arendt's observation compresses the century down to a sentence: "Power and violence are opposites; where one rules absolutely, the other is absent...
...week absence. Said Rowny: "If the Soviet delegation is prepared to meet us halfway, there will indeed be progress." Later in the day, Rowny met for three hours with the U.S.S.R.'s deputy chief arms negotiator, Aleksei A. Oboukhov, who was subbing for Chief Soviet Negotiator Victor Karpov, absent and "slightly...
...spires legitimate disagreement some students feel that grading students on class participation could interfere with the Law School's blind and therefore objective marking procedures, but many observers dismiss the complaints as an advanced form of grade grubbing But the faculty passes it when the proper student representatives are absent without warning them that the measure will come up for consideration...