Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absent opposition leaders, Lawyer Phineas Quass, a birdlike little man who had arrived from London only the previous week, insisted sharply: "This statute breaks two fundamental rights of a citizen, namely, to live in his own country, and to have access to the courts." For the government, Bing cited Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios, the Kabaka of Buganda and Bechuanaland's Seretse Khama as individuals who had been deported under British parliamentary rule. Retorted Quass: "I know of no precedent for suggesting that [the constitution's] words-'Peace, order and good government'-have been used anywhere...
...chief of the Trib's editorial page, ex-TIME-and-LiIFE Staffer William J. Miller, "is like eating boiled watermelon. They are dull, even worse, they are bland. Our whole society has become bland. The old-fashioned American capacity for outrage or indignation is so often absent as to seem almost archaic. We intend to restore...
...Soldiers Field this week it is not the opposing team that's disturbing the freshman football coaches, but a second, un-uniformed opponent: influenza. At yesterday's practice session, nine members of Coach Henry Lamar's freshman team were reported stricken with the virus, riddling the attendance roster with absent marks...
...members of the armed Red workers' militia gathered in a soccer stadium: "Everyone wonders what will happen on Oct. 23. I can tell you-nothing. It will be a normal working day. Children will go to school. Workers will be in factories. We will see who is absent from his place. And if it occurs to anyone to gather on the street, then the workers' power will be there in ten minutes and restore order...
Being Practical. Notably absent from the peace conference was Guerrilla Chief Phizo, whose ill-clad, ill-fed, weary and malaria-ridden troops were reported reduced to a mere 1,000. The agreement with Nehru had been reached without their consent by tribal chieftains who were fed up with the war. and convinced that Phizo's headhunters are pretty poor rifle shots anyway. Many of the chiefs had also come to realize that Nehru would never grant complete independence to a frontier people so close to Red-occupied Tibet. For the sake of expedience and compromise, Phizo was momentarily swept...