Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest. With or without surprises, Election Day was bound to be more exciting than the campaign. Whatever the outcome this week, most Americans would probably be relieved that it was over, that the country could get on with its pressing business in a seriousness that somehow has been absent for much of the political year...
...Hawk, that seemed enough to get Corona out on bail-after more than 500 days of incarceration (and two heart attacks). Indeed, at the courtroom hearing, with the jury absent, Judge Patton excoriated the prosecution for what "almost approaches dereliction of duty. I just don't understand how [the case] could have been prepared in this manner." Then Prosecutor Williams claimed he no longer had reasonable doubt, partly because he had just found that he really did have tire tracks that matched Corona's truck after all; the correct tire-track specimen had simply been mislaid...
...male has a startling effect on one of the several female fish in his harem: she becomes a male. Within a few hours of her liberation from the influence of a male, the head female in the harem begins to display male mannerisms. She reconnoiters the borders of the absent male's territory and pays aggressive calls on the other females. Within four days her courtship and spawning behavior cannot be distinguished from a male's. From 14 to 18 days after her accession to power she actually becomes a functioning male, physiologically capable of releasing sperm...
...captain Maud Wood, playing for an absent member of the starting 'Cliffe eleven, took a pass from Kathy Agoos in the left wing to fire a difficult head-on goal early in the game. Another goal by Wood, plus two successive goals by Wood, plus two successive goals by center forward Sally Foster, put Radcliffe ahead, 4-0, about four minutes before halftime...
Histrionics were conspicuously absent Thursday at the Law School when Twentieth Century Fox began filming "The Paper Chase", a movie about a first-year Harvard Law student...