Word: abstractedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ashes to Ashes. On wound the procession, the foreign dignitaries in the rear making a poor show beside the disciplined march of the military. Drab in topcoat and tophat they walked, wearing the abstracted look which the important learn to adopt under the pressure of staring eyes-neither marching nor...
If the general's manner seemed reserved and abstracted, the President reflected nothing but enthusiasm. He acted-in the words of New York Times Correspondent Tony Leviero-"like an insurance salesman who has at last signed up an important prospect . . . while the latter appeared dubious over the extent of...
The main body of the book is a minute, detailed description of the Hiss case as it developed before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and as it was argued before two juries. In an abstracted style Mr. Cooke notes the attitudes of the House Committee members, Mr. Murphy...
The Hilltop House. Three months ago on the island of Guernsey, fellow bank clerks began to notice that gaunt, hound-eared Tom Hugo was becoming more & more abstracted about the water pipe supplying his house on a hilltop in St. Peter Port. The water pipe, which Tom considered his own...