Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways, Le Duan's career has been advanced as much by luck as by leadership. In his early years of political activism, he managed, like the young Nikita Khrushchev, to be absent during periods of party turmoil. Between 1954 and 1956, he began to organize political subversion against the regime of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem. Le Duan was thus preoccupied with other matters at the time of the North Vietnamese land-reform debacle of 1956, which ended with the summoning of troops to put down a peasant revolt in Nghe An province. The crisis...
...Crimson performed remarkably well considering that many of its top players could not afford to make the journey northward. Phil Jonchkeer, Pete Kellogg, Dan Daiss, Reed McCarty and Doug Forrester did not travel with the team. Even with many of their best individual players absent, the aquamen exhibited excellent teamwork. Outstanding efforts were turned in by Tracy (Flash) Mallory, Alan (Bozo) Bozer, and (Clark) Kent Osband as well as the usually inspired performance of captain Mike Graff...
...genetic quirks known to cause retardation. More important, they can diagnose these in the fetus by amniocentesis. A needle is inserted into the uterus to draw off a sample of the fluid in which the fetus floats. The material is analyzed for extra or missing chromosomes or absent enzymes...
...Johnson?" Though this has an element of the private joke, Lacy and Rounds are so humanly right in their roles that they suggest similar foibles in any number of other men in other professions. The woman who casts delight on the evening is Carrie Nye. Too long absent from the New York stage, she confers not only her blonde good looks on both plays, but what too many other actresses neglect to cultivate: a crystal voice and a queenly bearing.-T.E.K...
AGGRESSIVE FAST-TALKING would-be seductress Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand) sets out to steal absent-minded, mild-mannered musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal) from hysterical rotund fiancee Eunice Burns (Madeleine Kahn). Bannister is in San Francisco in hopes of winning a $20,000 grant to study the role of igneous rocks in primitive man's music. The rival for the grant, one Hugh Simon, is the villain of the piece, plagiarist and foreigner, with an accent as unequivocally Yugoslavian as Streisand's is New Yorkese. Complications breed complications, and descent into farce takes about all of five minutes...