Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cortes, presided over a meeting of four factions: Izquierda Republicana (Republican Left), Unión Republicana, Catalána Esquerra (Catalan Left), Partido Nacionalista Basco (Basque Nationalists). Main agreement: that the last president of the Republican Cortes will decide when to re-establish the Republican Government in Spain. But absent from the meeting were the followers of Juan Negrín, Socialist last Premier of Republican Spain, now in England, as well as powerful other Socialist and Communist groups...
What's most important, there won't be a muster; but if you aren't present you will be marked "absent" on the fun to be provided by this "jam-up" program...
...Enemy. The skies of Sicily and the Mediterranean belonged to the Allies, but this fact did not mean that the enemy was absent or impotent. In the first days German fighters and bombers repeatedly attacked the ships offshore and the beachheads jammed with men and supplies (see p. 28). In the air Allied losses were low, and so was the bag of enemy planes: the Axis fighters avoided combat with Allied fighters when they could. But enemy ack-ack on Sicily was often concentrated and dangerous. Allied air supremacy was won and maintained by a gallantry all the more impressive...
Very few spectators were on hand. Noticeably absent were certain class officers who will be the first to get in on anything that happens if their team should win one of the cash prizes. Both teams played good ball and both deserve a much larger following than they now have. We can all afford an hour and a half away from the books. Let's get out there and support the boys who think enough of their classes to represent them on the ball diamond. They also serve who only sit and cheer...
...January 25 the Crimson had a birthday, its seventieth, with a delayed message from Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, absent at the meeting in Africa; to congratulate the undergraduate journalists...