Word: absorbate
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...Malan is not so foolish as he sounds. He knows he cannot win this year, and his strategy in this election has been to kill off the rival New Order and Afrikaner Parties, absorb all anti-British South Africans into the Herenigde Party. His long-run aim is victory in the next (1948) election. His platform then will consist of one big plank: to take South Africa out of the British Empire and establish it as an independent republic. And he will dearly hope that popular strong-man Smuts, 73, will have passed from the political scene...
...took a hard crack at "extravagant" claims that any number of planes could absorb most of the land & sea transport business after the war. OWI argued sensibly that the more planes there are the more ships, trucks and railroad cars will be needed to fuel and supply them. According to Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles I. Stanton, more than two 10,000-ton tanker loads of gasoline would be needed to refuel enough Clipper trips from New York to England to carry the cargo that one 10,000-ton freighter could take across in a single voyage...
...American gets his news and thus pictures his newsgatherers, the radio and the press. He realizes or senses enough about how it is done to make certain allowances for the product; but he expects it to be reasonably accurate and "worth reading" or listening to. Often he seems to absorb an immoderate daily dose of it, and double portions (with color) on Sundays; more, certainly, than the human mind is capable of attending to at all thoughtfully; he is consequently sometimes confused, sometimes reduced to stupor; but in general, with some regional exceptions, he feels himself...
...Acoustical tiles absorb sound by trapping sound waves in a mass of small holes. In his Manhattan home, Planebuilder Sherman Fairchild has a large, acoustically designed drawing room in which two pianos can be played at once without a deafening noise...
Kaishek, in the catholic nature of Chinese thought. It is in the heritage of a people "ardent with desire to rebuild their country," a desire with the force of "a tidal wave which will absorb the energies of our people for a century. . . ." It is as clear and tangible as the potential power of the Yangtze, the Great River, that roars through the gorges below the city, falling 16,000 feet from the Kunlun Ranges, while the millions who live beside it work through their brief years in ignorance of the power and light it might bring them...