Word: absorbate
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...hubbub of the vote die down than the Student Council will be upon them with a series of six or seven daily orientation meetings beginning Tuesday. Since the NSA delegates are also scheduled to represent the College at the Regional meeting on May 15, before that time they must absorb knowledge of all that the Council has done in the past year and plans to do in the coming year and also have acquired some specialty such as knowledge of international affairs or educational problems...
Before the Philadelphia convention next June, a major job of the nation's voters will be to absorb, weigh and compare the records in the Republican Who's Who of presidential candidates. Herewith, in the third-of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft...
...Senators were shocked. Oregon's Wayne Morse asked whether Randolph realized that such civil disobedience would probably be prosecuted as treason. He did, and added: "We would be willing to absorb the violence, absorb the terrorism, face the music, and take whatever comes...
Before the Philadelphia convention next June, a major job of the nation's voters will be to absorb, weigh and compare the records in the Republican Who's Who of presidential candidates. Herewith, in the second of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of California's Governor Earl Warren...
...early "Model T" bombs were designed to give maximum shock effect. Up-to-date bombs, intended to make the most of the radioactive effect, may be angled differently. Their explosive plutonium hearts may be surrounded by material chosen for its ability to absorb radiation and neutrons. When the bomb goes off they would turn into extra-deadly isotopes. Such a bomb would be a double threat. It could devastate a comparatively small area by shock and heat. Then the isotope fog could drift slowly downwind, killing by radiation...