Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that supported it. When the Lon No 1 government surrendered, Khmer Rouge and former government troops embraced, signalling an end to the suffering of the Cambodian people after five long years of war. The new Cambodian government holds out the hope of social reform and simple honesty that were absent under Lon No 1. For that reason alone, those in this country who support national self-determination for Cambodia should consider the success of the Khmer Rouge as a cause for celebration...
Despite its bloody, passion-inciting origins, the six-week trial had been surprisingly subdued. Few spectators were on hand; until the end, the press was all but absent. Only last week did Room 303 of the Erie County courthouse in downtown Buffalo begin to fill. Representatives of the Six Nations Indian "family" occupied one row in the spectators gallery. Sketch artists and television reporters craned for a better view. Defense Attorneys Ramsey Clark and William Kunstler and their young convict clients sat at an L-shaped table scarcely five feet from Chief Prosecutor Louis Aidala. Sheriffs' deputies and bailiffs...
...owns the rich oil deposits that lie more than three miles off the U.S. Atlantic seaboard-the coastal states or the Federal Government? Last week the Supreme Court with Justice Douglas still absent ruled unanimously that the rights to the seabed and subsoil belong to the U.S. Despite the huge potential payoff involved, the Justices deliberated swiftly and reached their decision three weeks after oral argument...
...equal-rights movement has bumped up against one of the most powerful bastions of male dominance in the U.S.-and moved it. Last week the men who sit on the Supreme Court, again with Douglas absent, unanimously ruled that an amendment to the Social Security Act granting aid to a widow caring for a child but not to a widower is unconstitutional. Taking a tough stand against sex discrimination, the court said that the Constitution would not tolerate the assumption "that male workers' earnings are vital to the support of their families, while the earnings of female wage earners...
...unstrained authority and is resonant with insight. She would make a marvelous Candida if some astute producer chose to revive the Shaw classic. Grodin is a kind of Dagwood uncharacteristically blessed with a heart and a mind. His manifest desire to do the right thing by both his absent wife and Doris contributes visibly to the felt compassion of the play. Rarely have a man and a woman on a stage mixed the honey of love and the glue of marriage so deftly that both are bonded in sweetness and surety...