Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston College, absent from the University schedule since 1919, may become a Crimson opponent in the near future, Tom Bolles, Director of Athletics, announced last week...
...beasts were feeling better, and the Barcelona zoo promised them a home. The midget, weak and undernourished, was installed in a home in Ciudad Real. All that remained of the abandoned circus was Sweikof the fox terrier, who lay down before the wagon of his absent master, and mournfully refused...
Clear trends in fiction were as absent as greatness. The novels were a mixed bag that included some good storytelling, an occasional commentary on contemporary life that reached the mark, an unceasing flow of hackwork by old, bestselling pros. Among the best, the most popular and the most interesting...
They thus bested the Northern city bosses: Tammany Hall's Carmine DeSapio, Chicago's Jake Arvey and Pittsburgh's Dave Lawrence. The bosses' candidate, Philadelphia City Councilman James A. Finnegan, was absent, recuperating from gall-bladder surgery. Lawrence explained with the sincerest form of flattery: "Why, he just had the same operation that Adlai Stevenson had." Later, at a meeting of committeemen from the Western states, Lawrence tried again. Said he: "I won't ask you to raise your hands, but I just wonder how many men in this room haven't had gallstones...
...Ickes worked tirelessly, stirring up enthusiasm for a third-term nomination for F.D.R. This effort, however, came to an unhappy end-for Ickes. When he arrived in Chicago for the convention, he found Harry Hopkins set up in the Blackstone Hotel, acting as convention manager for the absent President. Wrote Ickes of Hopkins: "Here he was sitting at the throttle and directing the movement that I had started and had kept hammering away at until it swept through the country like a cyclone...