Word: absents
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...preparation for the match, the coaches have stressed the importance of a relaxed attitude. Since the Crimson is a heavy underdog, some of the pressure of previous years is absent...
Fitzpatrick’s teammates have been excitedly following his progress through newspaper articles and internet updates this week, according to senior defensive back Sean Tracy, who is also Fitzpatrick’s roommate. They also helped out their absent captain by emailing him notes from his final exam review session...
...precisely this kind of impersonal recounting of some irrelevant bit of news that is often resorted to by distraught lovers who are contending with some strain and who thus choose to recount details from a neutral territory as they wait out a storm that swirls about them." Absent anything more incriminating, however, such as accounts by someone who saw the two having sex or expressions of carnal desire from Lincoln or Speed, it's hard to view the letter as anything other than a description of a murder trial...
...Reporting from my locale,” Summers said in a speech on Dec. 22 at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, “I can tell you that while these tensions are by no means absent, they seem to have receded somewhat over the last two years...
Council members who are absent from three or more meetings must appear before the next Executive Committee session in order to explain their absences, according to Section 22 of council bylaws. A two-thirds vote is required in order to be reinstated to council...