Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painting, is called whatever it's called. There's no mystery in this connection about "Over Twenty-One." It's about a 39-year old newspaper editor in a Florida Army training camp, and a recurring theme, or plaint, is built around the fiotsam that a man "can't absorb anything after he's passed...
Industrial diamonds comprise only 28% of the value (v. 87% of the volume) of diamonds sold in the U.S., the biggest market. With them, the company is less careful. But the cartel permits no stockpiling, carefully sells only what diamonds it judges the market can absorb...
Then the Gaullist administration moved to absorb the F.F.I, into the Regular Army, and General Joseph Pierre Koenig, Gaullist Commander in Chief of the F.F.I., ordered the Paris Maquis to give up their arms. The National Council of Resistance agreed that the F.F.I, should be under War Ministry control...
Only the First. The first blow of the gathering Allied offensive was struck. The enemy might absorb it, stop it. But the fortnight of stalemate had clearly demonstrated this fact: the air-powerless Germans could do little to forestall similar blows wherever, whenever the Allies might choose to unleash them...
...Plastic dishes in any color which will not break, crack, discolor or absorb...