Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fragile face penetrates to the madonna calm and compassion she possesses. The epiphany is not just the result of Maeve Kinkead's fine acting. Hunter takes the time to look, really look--and we see. When Anastasia washes body paint off her legs, the marijuana camera stops time to absorb the beauty of this motion still-life, the colors of paint and flesh, the dissolution of the paint in water, her wonderfully slow movements to the drawn-out Streetchoir music and lyrics...
...when he began adapting violin and piano music to the vibes and marimba, which he had taken up at the age of six. At eleven, he organized his father, brother and sister into a band that performed around their home town of Princeton, Ind. Later he went on to absorb jazz in club dates at nearby Evansville, country music in recording sessions at Nashville, and classical composition at Boston's Berklee School of Music...
...York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn described an antiseptic suture that seems to be just what Lister was looking for. Dr. Harry H. LeVeen and colleagues reasoned that if old-fashioned silk suture thread offers hiding places for germs, it will also have room to absorb a fair amount of antibacterial chemical. After swelling the silk to make it still more absorbent, they soaked it in a preparation of benzethonium, a modern, potent germ killer. Then they tested the sutures in mice, and got 100% protection against infection for at least five days, even when the animals were...
Magraw has argued that students ought to be represented on Faculty Committees like the Committee on Houses and the CEP. He also feels that the HUC should absorb some of the activities of "a plethora of organizations [the CRIMSON, PBH, SDS] all fulfilling functions which are in the domain of student government." Glimp calls the first of these suggestions "unrealistic," and the second is impossible to legislate formally...
While students will naturally have to absorb some of the rising costs, shifting all of the increase to them would be an undesirable result of the Zaccharias plan. "It would be unfortunate if attention were focused on just this one program," R. Jerrold Gibson, Assistant Director of Financial Aid, cautions. "When you head into a crisis like this one, you have a tendency to look for first aid. What you really need is a balanced solution...