Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Regent Nicholas Horthy's ill-fated try for an armistice. Among his ministers: an author and student of agrarian reform; a history professor jailed by Horthy for "subversive activities" ; a geology professor and cousin of Count Paul Teleki, ex-Premier who committed suicide in April 1941. Notably absent was Hungary's top Communist, Matyas Rakosi, sixtyish, stout ex-commissar in the Communist Government of Béla Kun after World War I, later vice president of the Comintern. Rakosi presumably was in Moscow...
...Damaskinos (born Demetrios Papandreou-see RELIGION), whose impartiality and anti-fascist record made him acceptable to both sides. Premier George Papandreou preferred a three-man regency. The Archbishop replied that he would act alone, or not at all. ELAS retired to consider surrendering its arms, the Government to persuade absent King George II to agree to a regency. Meanwhile the fighting continued...
...about the cleaning service in Boston and requests that anyone who would like "vastly superior" service to contact his father, who is a dry-cleaning magnate--in Detroit. If this questionable weather continues, "T.C.U." Thomas says he's going home to Texas. Murray threatens to report him absent from muster if he does, so a continuation of cold weather "mat" find the "Texas heart" still transplanted...
...course the first thing that you will notice in reading this well-worn column is that Willie Cousins is absent. Such are the fortunes of war and the penalties of living off-station. It looks as though I'll have to take the blame all by myself and suffer Unsat's alone. I'm going to miss Bill getting "hot" copy, rewriting and generally helping to make everybody's private life public...
...window opening onto a courtyard in the middle of which stood a tall and beautiful tree." The man who placed so much importance on erotic drives that he was widely regarded as monstrous was "der Papa" to six adoring children-"when one of the children had been absent for some time and was met by another, the first word from the newcomer was: 'Father now drinks his tea from the green cup instead of from the blue one.'" As for Frau Professor: "I am sure that he was a great man to her before a word...