Word: absented
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...Rakosi went on, has greatly increased. Some factories have separate time clocks which register 7 a.m. all day long for the benefit of latecomers. The number of absentees and sick has risen to an unprecedented height. In one week, for example, 500 employees of the State Cattle Administration were absent on sick leave. When visited by supervisors sent around by the state-controlled trade union, only one of the absentees was home-and he was celebrating his wedding...
...more than two years, at every roll call, Senate clerks had written the words "necessarily absent" after the name of the senior Senator from New York. Nevertheless, Senate pages continued to tend the inkwell and sand holder at his vacant desk, and his name appeared from time to time (as a cosponsor) on Senate bills...
Only William Orville Douglas, the justice with the cowlick and the friendly grin, was absent; he had flown off to the Middle East to climb a mountain and make a speech...
Dunn, Crosby Absent...
...been ripped open for him the night before, was bricked up again after the ceremony. Bobbing up & down, Franco acknowledged the cheers of the white-jacketed Procuradores (Cortes members) and the blue-uniformed Falangists. On hand to hear the Caudillo was a fine array of foreign diplomats, but conspicuously absent were the charges d'affaires of France, Britain...