Word: absorbent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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National Passions. The heist was so professional that police suspect the thieves have ties to organized crime and may have little trouble fencing their take -although not at face value. Casinos, race tracks and other businesses that deal in large volumes of change should be able to absorb the coins (provided police informers don't spot them). Moreover, several national passions-ranging from tippling to the weekly tierce horse race-force cafes to keep large amounts of coins on hand. Last year two crooks who had stolen $80,000 in one-franc coins tried to convince police that...
...year teller at the Union Dime Savings Bank and discovered that he had made off with $1.5 million by the computerized shuffling of funds among little-used accounts. Even if caught, a computer thief may not be prosecuted. Fearing embarrassing publicity, some firms merely fire the offender and absorb the losses...
Along with ten others, I had enrolled in Couture's "high performance" program. You begin by wondering how much anyone can absorb in three days. You conclude with fatigue, a sense of achievement and at length a kind of horror. For years you have been driving out of control without realizing...
Fanger said the Summer School and the Center will absorb the extra costs this year...
...poetry; the vigor of exile literature in prewar Europe; dispersal of emigre energies and talents after the war began. Nabokov's love affair with America, his teaching experiences at Wellesley and Cornell, and his success with Lolita are covered in more detail than most readers may care to absorb. But Nabokov's friendship and celebrated squabble with Edmund Wilson are sensitively yet amusingly rendered...