Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charter of the organization should genuinely recognize the principles of justice and law. Such recognition is now almost entirely absent. We specifically endorse Senator Vandenberg's proposal that the charter should have as one of its leading purposes "to establish justice and to promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms." In order to give immediate significance to the rule of law, a definition of "aggression" should be incorporated in the charter of the organization...
...ritifs were omitted, being unnecessary. The soup course was dispensed with, for lack of ingredients. The salad was absent, black-market prices prohibiting. The main course, occupying a pitifully small central part of the table, consisted of a medium-sized plateful of home-fried potatoes (perhaps five potatoes in all), a two-inch slice of Spam (for four people), obtained God knows where, and, through the generosity of an Allied soldier, a couple of ounces of spread-on meat. Unappetizing black bread, ungarnished even by margarine, completed not only the course, but the dinner. Coffee (2,000 francs a kilo...
...Philadelphia's distinguished physicians was so absent minded that he forgot his stethoscope when he called late one night to listen to the heart of a lady patient. He leaned down, listened, fell asleep and remained there almost half an hour. The lady thought it "an exceptionally thorough examination." Another famed Philadelphia doctor, S. (for Silas) Weir Mitchell, was a successful novelist, an expert on snake bites, and a pioneer U.S. neurologist. When his own nerves gave way, he rushed to Europe, consulted a Viennese specialist, was told: "In your own country...
Surprise, Surprise. In Denver, the Colorado Board of Examiners for engineers and land surveyors gathered to surprise Member James Underhill with a gold cup for 20 years' perfect attendance. Underhill was absent...
...Monsanto, where Dr. Kyrides avoids his flossy executive offices and spends almost all his time in his laboratory, he is esteemed as a modest, impulsive, absent-minded scientist. His present colleagues did not know of his pioneering work in synthetic rubber until World War II sent them to their reference books...