Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost immediately, toothy Premier Dong found that he had chewed off a peck of troubles. When, last fortnight, he held his first Cabinet meeting (absent: President Ho), Hanoi's streets were still littered with the debris of Typhoon Kate, which had sunk junks and barges, torn up railroad tracks, burst dikes and spun off thatched roofs as though they were flying saucers. Although Hanoi is swarming with Russians, East Germans, Poles and Chinese (a Canadian truce-commission officer observed that "there are more white faces than during the French administration"), the Communist big brothers seem to regard North Viet...
...slipped away from the Germans three times, once killing three captors with a knife and the butt of a sentry's rifle, another time impersonating an Irish Republican Army man (and spouting Urdu when asked to show that he could speak Gaelic). He slept one night in an absent German general's bed, watched from the bedroom window the Nazis' parade into Paris, and cycled across France to freedom. Back in Britain, he left his commander's desk and flew repeated fighter missions as "Wing Commander Smith...
Professorially absent-minded about most other things, Stapp at work is a man possessed. Hand, mind and eye move with tireless precision. His energy is a constant challenge to subordinates, for he is a man who knows what he wants to do and prefers to do it himself. He may well be the only happy "light" colonel in uniform. "A light colonel," he argues, "can work with his hands. A full colonel gets carried around too much...
...Absent: Minnesota's Orville Freeman, traveling abroad, and Mississippi's ailing Hugh White...
...Margaret of all rights of royal succession, her right to become Regent if Elizabeth and Philip should die before Prince Charles comes of age, her annual ?6,000 income under the Civil List, and her function of Councillor of State, which she exercises whenever the sovereign is incapacitated or absent from the country for a long time...