Word: absorb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small pot held over the boiling water, melt 2/3 of the can of sweetened condensed milk, the peanut butter chips, and two tablespoons of butter, stirring constantly. If the handle of the pot gets too hot, use something thick like a tube sock to cover the handle and absorb heat. Which the mixture is thoroughly mixed, remove like heat and stir in the peanuts...
...attack coming. It also puts an almost inconceivable burden on the ability of a leader to react decisively yet wisely in a matter of minutes. That is why the superpowers have preferred to stick with a concept of stability posited on "mutual survivability," whereby each side could absorb a nuclear attack and then retaliate with devastating force. Dense Pack deployment of the MX would be a step toward a condition of "mutual vulnerability," in which each side would have an extra incentive to shoot first rather than retaliate, and that would be the most dangerous of all possible worlds...
...believe that the Iranian regime of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini may have learned the costly lesson of its massive, suicidal assaults. In response, Iran has adopted a new strategy of long-term attrition, undertaking only intermittent and limited offensives. The question then becomes: Which government is better able to absorb the continued carnage of a sustained struggle? Many analysts feel that the odds at the moment slightly favor Iran. Says a U.S. official: "The Iranians are still willing to go out and die in this war, but the Iraqis don't have the heart for it any more...
...name. Many of the bishops who participated in last week's debate freely admit that Vatican II was a turning point in their lives. Said St. Paul's Roach: "It was really the mind and spirit of the council that I have tried to assimilate and absorb...
...horrified inner fears of blacks, homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned." Mamet's problem in Edmond is that his intuitional reach...