Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Union Carbide, suggested the industrial look of tomorrow: privately designed power and research reactors; such strange gadgets as electromagnetic pumps that have no moving parts except a stream of molten sodium pushed through them by magnetism, purified graphite blocks widely used in reactors, silicone resins for high-temperature insulation. Absent from the industrial exhibit: the Soviet Union...
...vote in the showdown. By accepting Republican Ralph Flanders' proposal to link the rate of housing starts to fluctuations in general business activity, Johnson won Flanders' vote. Then he cashed in lOUs with two other G.O.P. Senators, getting them to offset two of Johnson's absent Democrats by not voting themselves...
...feature is conspicuously absent in this page of photographs: the glass flowers. Certainly they are the best-known aspect of the Museum. But also, they are one of the less vivid and appealing aspects. Down the hall, up stairs and downstairs from them lie the other museum. To the footweary they sometimes seem almost impossible, their halls are no long. To those looking for specific objects they may seem warehouses instead of display-places. Yet the causal onlooker can find there immense lore and satisfaction
...together in the Cabinet (along with the Calvinist Anti-Revolutionary Party and the Christian Historical Union) in a kind of gruff but reasonable coalition. But this time Premier Willem Drees let the argument get to a vote, and Parliament doggedly overruled him 50-48 (with two members absent). There was nothing else to do. Premier Willem Drees, the ex-stenographer who had run The Netherlands for six uninterrupted years on a welfare-state platform, trotted off to the Queen to resign...
...with the 39th running of America's car-racing classic: the Indianapolis 500. The cars will be faster than ever this year, the drivers as daring, and the spectators will get their thrills. But for the first time in the memory of most fans, one man will be absent-the 500 will not be the same without three-time race winner and Speedway President Warren Wilbur Shaw...