Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scouts, too, were interested not in the score-21-7 for the South-but in the talent arrayed before them. Some of the best college seniors were absent, or already drafted for the pros, or both. Alabama's stubborn refusal to let a Negro play with white men cheated the spectators out of a chance to see jolting Jim Brown, who had looked magnificent in Syracuse's 28-27 loss to T.C.U. in the Cotton Bowl, but Brown had already been drafted by Cleveland. Iowa's Kenny Ploen, star of the Hawkeyes' 35-19 win over...
Eisenhower followed the weathermen's advice and made his decision for a June 6 landing. June 5 was stormy, but on June 6 weather conditions were reasonably good. The invasion forces crossed the Channel, finding the Germans unprepared. Their airplanes were grounded; their naval vessels absent. Deceived by the storm which had just passed, they thought Eisenhower would wait at least another...
Once in, Hoover found the path strewn with difficulty. An inordinate shyness, accentuated by his deafness, was mistaken for gruffness, an engineer's anxiety to be letter-perfect, for indecision. Twice while Dulles was absent, Hoover as Acting Secretary had to take responsibility for poor staff work that produced diplomatic boomerangs: 1) the U.S. snub in April 1955 of Communist China's offer to negotiate disagreements that were leading the two nations toward war; 2) the on-again, off-again shipment of 18 U.S. tanks to Saudi Arabia last winter in the midst of Israel's strongest...
...piled in the hall, the baggage of the same Franklin D. Roosevelt who had nominated him for the presidency and dubbed him "the happy warrior." Prohibition was the law of the land, but Al called for a bottle of champagne, anointed F.D.R.'s trunks and intoned to his absent friend: "Now, Frank, if you want a drink, you will know where to find...
...thrives on opposition. "When I'm angry, I carr do no wrong," she says. "I sing and act like someone possessed." But Tebaldi wilts. "She's got no backbone. She's not like Callas." Year by year Tebaldi reduced her appearances, until last year she was absent entirely from La Scala, and Callas held the field with 37 performances...