Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depth of the Crimson squad has saved it this season. Several injuries cost the team the services of key starters, but an effective substitute was almost always available. Only two players counted on as starters at the beginning of the season will be absent Saturday. Inside right Dick Fisher and goalie Lindsay Fischer have already played their last games for the Crimson, but Munro has no worries about those positions. Elliot Finkelstein has a string of 205 consecutive scoreless minutes as a goalie, and either Charlie MacVeagh or Bill Lingelbach can be counted on at inside right...
Twice more on successive days, Red Socialist strategy saved the government from serious embarrassment. A government budget bill was about to be defeated because about 40 government supporters were absent. A Nenni henchman, while publicly opposing the budget, sent 30 or 40 Communist and Socialist members out of the hall to match the missing Christian Democrats. The Segni government was saved from a defeat. Philosophizing on his new strategy (which Italians are calling the Strategy of the Smile), Nenni said: "The slow disintegration of the majority is turning the Houses of Parliament into a sort of jungle...
Speaking last night in Longfellow's Alumni Lecture Room, Siegfried stated that the civilization of Europe, on the other hand, possesses a unique element of quality, combining Mediterranean ideals of individualism with the Anglo-Saxon element. The Mediterranean influence, he explained, is largely absent from the "character of the United States...
...without trouble. Justice Wilkins wrote in the decision, "We think that (the Sunday censorship law) is void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and of the press guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments...It is unthinkable that there is a power, absent as to secular days, to require the submission to advance scrutiny by governmental authority of newspapers to be published on Sunday, or sermons to be preached on Sunday, or public addresses to be made on Sunday...
...itself. He goes back to medieval days and alchemy. He goes back to ancient Greece, back to the Garden of Eden itself. "Well, Adam," says the serpent, "so you've come back at last . . ." But he has not brought any Eve with him-in fact, Eve is conspicuously absent from most of the trilogy...