Word: absently
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...amusing strip, he tricks out the baby carriage with, "a bumper, windshield wings, spotlight that reels out?an awning and a set of snubbers to take the rebound out the springs." The scenes with Walt and Skeezix together are filled with genuine warmth that seems almost totally absent from many of today's family entertainments. King would even occasionally sacrifice a gag just for the sake of creating a mood. One remarkable, wordless strip shows silhouettes of the two inside a tent, as Walt wakes up in the night to feed the baby. That's it. Just like life...
...parents are away, she may take one of her charges home with her to spend the night. At the Lennep school near Montana's Crazy Mountains, Second-Grader Lee Cavender, 7, barges in to say that his sisters, twins who constitute the entire seventh grade, will be absent today. They turned 13 over the weekend, old enough for deer-hunting licenses, and, of course, their father has taken them shooting. With or without the twins, it is time for classes to begin. Erica Hess, 11, has the school-bell duty today. But the rope has broken, so she blows...
...area's underground geological contours. Magnetic readings in the Everglades suggest the presence of a subterranean mass of metallic ore that could conceivably be the remains of an asteroid. Finally, scientific journals have noted that a commonly found rock stratum, called the Ocala formation, is suspiciously absent in southern Florida. Petuch suggests that it was hurled into the sky during impact...
Only in Grettir's Saga are the themes of equilibrium and balance absent. Grettir is a law unto himself. Taking on everyone alone, he finally chooses death over the safety of the world...
...Pennsylvania," Casey says. Playing on Scranton's quirky past, he adds: "I really don't know what his political philosophy is. To go from George McGovern to Ronald Reagan defies definition." Casey's commercials lampoon Scranton's poor attendance record as president of the state senate; he was absent from his duties there 84% of the time. "They gave him the job because of his father's name," charges one Casey TV spot. "At least he could go to work...