Word: absorbable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time Louis Johnson had also thrust his bald skull into another angry beehive. At a friendly little luncheon for a handful of Washington newsmen, he incautiously confirmed some of John Sullivan's worst fears. The newsmen came away with the distinct impression that Johnson was intending to absorb all of Marine Corps aviation into the Air Force or the Navy or both, and that a directive to that effect was already in the works...
Rivera promptly forgot the connection. Being a sharp student, with a blotterlike ability to absorb and reproduce the methods of a succession of his masters, he won a traveling scholarship at 20, spent the next three years "gobbling up museums," painting in Europe, and expressing little that he felt...
...good teachers at the Polytechnic Academy in Zurich, Switzerland, but somehow, looking back, he was not satisfied. For one thing, he had not grasped the importance of mathematics soon enough: "I saw that mathematics was split into numerous specialties, each one of which could easily absorb the short lifetime granted us. Consequently, I saw myself in the position of Buridan's ass*. . . unable to decide...
...leader and "temporary Premier" was loannis (John) loannidies, a seasoned, sinister and widely feared revolutionist who has been a member of the Communist Party since 1918. Henceforth, said the rebel broadcast, the party would have no more truck with "nationalist diversions." Military commanders who could not absorb "Stalinist military science" (i.e., politics first, military exigencies second), would follow Markos into oblivion...
...spots, and bare ground in much of the New England area are the direct causes of the balmy weather here, Brooks explained. "If there were snow on the ground it would reflect the sun's rays but since the ground has been largely bare this winter it tends to absorb heat from...