Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time. None of us knew what to expect from a depth charge. They were most frightening. I remember standing, holding onto the brass ladder as these things went off. With the first few bangs there was a shower of the white cork which lines the hull to absorb moisture. We called the downfall a "white Christmas...
...submit; many of them openly and disrespectfully opposed him. But Hitler, like Roehm, Hess and Göring, was a "betrayed" soldier (and a brave one, Heiden insists); like Rosenberg and Goebbels, he was a frustrated man of questionable intellect. Few, if any, of his fellow "intellectuals" could so absorb themselves in the life of the Party, so readily sacrifice to this chosen duty the pleasures and comforts of life. Above all, none could so meticulously appraise the exact temper of an audience, and then bend it to his will...
...list goes on but it is too long to relate here. Each man will have to absorb and learn it for himself. But to help him, Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History, wrote a book called "Three Centuries of Harvard...
...June 13, 1917, Pershing landed in France. The Allies were bled white by three years of viselike war. They were low in morale and committed to holding trenches, but their spirits rose when Pershing and the A.E.F. arrived. The leaders of the British and French were eager to absorb this fresh new blood into their own thin blood streams...
...more water, soda, vichy or ginger ale in highballs. The human system can absorb just so much liquid. . . . After the drink has been served, put the bottle back on the back-bar. A bottle standing in front of the customer suggests and invites another drink...