Word: absents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bums, priests, con men, whining housewives, burglars, waitresses, children and bewildered ordinary citizens who people Dragnet seem as sorrowfully genuine as old pistols in a hockshop window. By using them to dramatize real cases from the Los Angeles police files-and by viewing them with a compassion totally absent in most fictional tales of private eyes-Webb has been able to utilize many a difficult theme (dope addiction, sex perversion) with scarcely a murmur of protest from his huge public...
Lewis G. Wiggins has been appointed as Acting Comptroller of the University while Comptroller Howard N. Smith is "absent on leave," Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, said...
...absence of a quorum prevented the group from making any real transaction of business, but the members discussed several reports, assuming approval by those absent. These reports will be finally passed on next week...
...relations be tween the Western allies. For several years, Britain, France and the U.S. have been drifting apart. One of Molotov's obvious goals was to widen the gaps. At Berlin, the Western Three closed ranks. Dulles. Eden and Bidault worked decisively together in a unity long dangerously absent...
...board of directors of RKO met last week to take up the surprising offer of Multimillionaire Howard Hughes to buy out the corporation's stockholders. With Hughes and Noah Dietrich. No. 2 man in the Hughes empire, absent, the board voted to accept the offer, called a special meeting of stockholders to vote on the proposal March 18, about two weeks before the deadline set by Hughes...