Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final vote: 85 yes, 5 no, with 6 absent. (If all had been present, the final vote would have been 90-to-6.) Against the Resolution: the Midwest's triumvirate of old-style isolationists, Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, North Dakota's William Langer, Wisconsin's Robert La Follette, North Carolina's Reynolds, Montana's Wheeler (who had supported the League until 1923); and Hiram Johnson...
...couldn't call Pee Wee absent minded, but he's the only man I know who consistently pays a nickel to get out of the Broadway & Seventh Avenue Subway...
...Absent-Minded...
Ever hear the one about the absent minded professor? Well, this is almost as good. A. J. Gregory, who was trying awfully hard to function as the leader of the third platoon on the way to chow the other day, got his signals mixed as we approached the outskirts of Harvard Union. "Column left," commanded Mr. Gregory, who promptly did a very next column right and marched down Quincy Street all by himself. The Platoon, which was hungry, marched straight ahead toward the Union's main entrance. "Oh, pardon me," apologized Mr. Gregory, scurrying back to the head...
...anticlimax had its own significance. The Japs failed completely to react. If there were any fighters on the island, they never got in the air. Although U.S. surface ships were within bombing range of strong Jap bases on Bonin and Marianas Islands, no bombers ever appeared to retaliate. Conspicuously absent was the Jap fleet...