Word: absorbate
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...nation's farmers, who look increasingly to foreign markets to absorb U.S. abundance, are hard hit. A bumper soybean crop in Alabama spilled out of all available storage elevators and was kept temporarily on barges. While dock workers ignored a state court's back-to-work order, one group of farmers threatened to load the crop onto ships themselves. Barges carrying the Midwest's feed-grain harvest to port were backed up at a score of wharves along the Mississippi River and the sight of corn piled high on the ground has become common. Illinois farmers have...
...Connor's world, shrewdness does not count, nor do other traditional virtues such as thrift or planning ahead. The Displaced Person is a complex and appalling tragedy in which country people who think of themselves as hardy "survivors," destroy their own world rather than absorb a Polish refugee who is himself simply trying to survive. Few writers mix comedy and cruelty more offhandedly or more effectively. Witness a redneck farmhand's wife contemplating the Polish family's broken English: "They can't talk. You reckon they'll know what colors even is?" As her hostile...
...peripheral" functions so it could "concentrate exclusively" on serving farmers. Actually, his earlier plan to drop the department was going nowhere in Congress, and had become an enticing target for Democrats from agricultural areas. The department has become so unwieldy and inefficient that Nixon's plan to absorb its functions in a broader Cabinet division had administrative merit, but farmers feared, with some reason, that it would further dilute their influence...
...floats into the wind greatly eases docking facilities for sailboats which must head into the wind to stop and dock. In addition both sides of the seven sixteen-foot sections of floats can be utilized to make over 100 feet of space on each side. The segments, which absorb waves more smoothly than one continuous span can be dismantled and piled on top of each other for easy storage in the winter...
...laid a lifetime of artistic training and personal experience to harvest creating what he calls "my little pictures." However harmless Mr. Feild thinks his watercolors, there is nothing insipid about their author. He possesses an enviable impressionability and gentle wonder. Most aspects of "the adventure of living" absorb Mr. Feild, and he has no hesitation to speak a piece of his mind...