Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...studied the tiny air sacs that constitute the functioning surface of the lung, where the actual transfer of gases between the air and the blood occurs. When normal lungs exhale, the sacs are held open by fatty substances called lipids. But in RDS infants, Gluck found, these lipids are absent. Result: the victim breathes harder, the air sacs collapse, and soon the lungs stop functioning...
Joseph Maynard, whose vote would break the tie, was again absent...
...gold-painted, potbellied, disheveled bird, sculpted by Boren himself. Among the recipients were ex-Ambassador to Panama and former Peace Corps Director Jack Hood Vaughn and John Brayton Redecker, a State Department official and author of CASP: A Systematic Approach to Policy Planning and Analysis in Foreign Affairs. Absent was Vice President Spiro Agnew, tapped for "his contributions to the state of the communications art and to the orbital prolusionary processes, as finalized in direct trajectories...
...Politburo. The fastest-rising man in China is Army Chief of Staff Huang Yung-sheng (TIME, Aug. 24), who now ranks fifth on official lists. Some radicals, by contrast, have fallen from power, particularly those who gathered around Mao's wife Chiang Ching. Among those conspicuously absent from the National Day parade: Politburo Members Hsieh Fu-chih and Chen Pota, both powerful proponents of the Cultural Revolution. Army control, however, is far from complete, and the radicals have not given...
...stood at one or the other of two extremes: "strict, cruel and unjust or weak, vacillating, ineffective or absent altogether." The son grows up hating the father, and learning to take on the cop, capitalism and the Establishment. He can, says Wahl, even murder without guilt. Many revolutionaries suffer from searing feelings of inadequacy, Wahl adds, and therefore have a greater-than-ordinary need for notoriety. Supporting this view, De Paul University Psychologist Thomas Milburn speaks of the "Icarus complex" among many terrorists?"even though you fall to earth, you've tried one spectacular thing...