Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time the girls get around to their really lethal mischief, one wielding a flatiron, the other a kitchen knife, the audience is too sated with lunacy and violence to absorb any message-except possibly to beware of sleep-in maids...
...hospital-one with badly bruised ribs, another with a cut that took eight stitches to close. "No more of this ain't gonna happen to me," muttered Alonzo Johnson, the seventh to quit. The hero of the hour was a pug named "Big Train" Lincoln, who managed to absorb 35 rounds of punishment before he spat out a tooth and sighed: "This is a hell of a way to make a living." Trimmed down to svelte...
...time during the night and thank God that I am an American." >"We want every boy and girl born under that flag, when he or she discovers America and comes in squealing, we want him to know that he has the right to all the education that he can absorb. If we are going to compete with the Soviet Union, we are not only going to have to have the best heels and the best hearts that we can, but we are going to have to have the best heads. You don't want some boy that went...
Partly because it is distributed free to guarantee advertisers a fixed circulation base, Cambridge 38 has lost money for at least three years. Loeffler said, however, that the Yearbook does not expect to make a profit on the magazine, and could continue to absorb similar losses for some time...
...high survival rate on the atolls. Part of the answer surely lies with the tropical atolls themselves, where soothing trade winds and warm ocean currents forever bring birds, fish and seeds from far, unbombed shores. But another part of the puzzle may be the manner in which animals absorb and then throw off radiation. Donaldson and company have brought back hundreds of fish and wildlife samples from the atolls, are now analyzing them for radiation clues. Their most promising specimens are giant clams that were dredged up alive four miles from the center of the blasts that seared the atolls...