Word: absently
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...himself, a very promising political career could be suffocated in the crib. But somehow you get the feeling that Obama would not make a fool of himself-indeed, it is far more likely that he would bring a freshness, eloquence and thoughtfulness to Democratic Party politics that have been absent since Bill Clinton was in the hunt. Freshness doesn't last forever. If Obama waits and hangs around the Senate for six to 10 more years, he may wind up sounding like a Senator-which is to say he will no longer have command of the English language-and, worse...
...Catholic church, delivered a homily exhorting Catholics to love everyone—short, tall, white, black, gay, and straight—because God loves everyone. While he did not address whether being gay is a sin, the priest’s homily conveys acceptance towards gays that is unfortunately absent from many Christian communities around the country...
...States and governments use the information all the time, so it's possible to do it legally," says Martin of ARI. ?Absent a law it seems unfair to go after someone when they just decided it was illegal.? But the Federal Trade Commission and cellphone companies claim impersonation like this is fraud, violating federal and local statutes...
...clear enough: "Go away from my window, / Go away from my door, / Go away way from my bedside / And bother me no more / And bother me no more." But it got a softer, more complex meaning both from the melody, which has the poignancy of a lullaby to an absent child, and from Niles' rendition, his voice soaring on the first "bother me no more" so that he sounds like an unquiet spirit, or maybe a sleeper shooing a ghost out of his nightmares...
...THAT GOT AWAY HOWELL RAINES "There is," Raines tells us, "nothing as gone, as utterly lost to us, nothing as definitely absent and irretrievable as a lost fish." This from a man who lost one of the biggest fish in media, executive editorship of the New York Times, after the infamous Jayson Blair scandal. In this easy chair of a book, Raines, frank, engaging and not entirely without rancor, hops nimbly from the newsroom to such remote waters as the Kola Peninsula in Russia and the seas around tiny Christmas Island. "Howell eats gunpowder for breakfast," one Times reporter says...