Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Budding Grass Roots. Last winter, as Democratic national committeeman, Ed Muskie was resigned to another Democratic licking. With just three weeks to go before the filing deadline, party funds were down to about $300, and willing candidates were conspicuously absent. Then Muskie detected a budding of the grass roots. Says he: "Towns that had never held a Democratic meeting started calling state headquarters and asking, 'How do we hold a caucus...
...sent 63,000 Viet Minh captives back to Communism. This left unknown the fate of about 25,000 French Union troops, including 20,000 Vietnamese, and the Communists showed no sign of accounting for them. Among those freed by the Reds were five U.S. Air Force technicians, captured while absent without leave and swimming at a beach...
...their fear that Mendes might get too much of the credit. Only Georges Bidault dared to compare Geneva to Munich; he drew only skimpy applause from his own Roman Catholic M.R.P. Party, and short shrift from Mendès. By a thundering vote, of 462 to 13, with 152 absent or abstaining (the latter mostly from Bidault's M.R.P.), the Assembly hailed "the cessation of hostilities in Indo-China, due in large measure to the decisive action of the Premier...
Food Like Home. When the visitors arrived a fortnight early, the little town of Henley shrugged off its normal absent-minded air and pitched in to help them train. At first the Russians-nine assorted coaches and chaperones, a chubby lady physician and 23 earnest oarsmen-were split into two groups, one to reside at the Jolly Waterman, a tavern about a mile from the river, the other at Fair Mile, twelve-room Victorian residence of Reginald Pearce, a Henley jeweler. Said...
...There were nine on the committee.. One man was absent in Sweden...