Word: absently
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PRINCETON, N.J.--Representatives from seven national fraternities are trying to rally support at Princeton for starting up a social system that has been absent from the university for a century...
From September through December, most consciously absent from the store counters was the variety of fresh fruits and vegetables that we have been taught to love. True, there were plenty of carrots and potatoes, but they were soggy; the apples and grapes were sour. Luckily, there are a few markets where farmers are permitted to sell privately the produce cultivated on their own plots. The contrast to the state-run stores was striking. The counters of the market stalls were covered with crisp apples, firm tomatoes, leafy lettuce, crunchy carrots, and of course, mounds of mushrooms. Just...
...Patrick A. Flaherty, the graduate school representative to the ACSR, said that at one point in the session, the committee voted to hold an open meeting on April 22 but reversed this decision later because three of 12 committee members were absent...
This conciliatory line is no spur-of-the-moment switch but a calculated strategy. When the White House staff gathered at Camp David with Reagan's pollsters and outside advisers for a political planning session in early February-the President himself was absent-all agreed that Reagan ought to show more sympathy to the poor and to racial and religious minorities. The President, whose own political antennas had picked up the growing public unease, did not have to be sold. Again, when Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker warned Reagan three weeks ago that his gibes against congressional critics...
...Russell Absent...