Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with Passion. But even running four newspapers-the Express, the Sunday Express (a separate newspaper), the Evening Standard and the Glasgow Evening Citizen-cannot absorb the Beaver's tremendous energies. Only this spring he took a second wife, the former Lady Dunn, widow of a lifelong friend. He was as excited as the youngest swain. "I am very glad to get her," he said. "It isn't often when you get 84, and find yourself still interesting to a woman." He has just published his twelfth book, The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George. Like most...
Trade experts pointed out that U.S. Agriculture Department officials should have realized sooner that Austria (pop. 7,000,000) could not possibly absorb 40 million bushels of feed grains in four years. "You could feed all the chickens and pigs in Austria 24 hours a day," snickered one expert, "and it would still be piled so high you wouldn't be able to drive through the streets of Vienna." U.S. officials, moreover, must have been monumentally careless to let 24 million bushels of grain get lost. That comes to 665,000 tons, or roughly 66 shiploads...
...college dailies like the CRIMSON, the Michigan Daily, and the Daily Californian will be hurt by the suspension, but they should have enough institutional strength to absorb the loss while searching for replacements. Unfortunately, only a handful of papers are in this category. Many will be forced to go to their administration or student government organization for financial help. Bi-weeklies may have to cut back to weekly publication, and weeklies and dailies may have to reduce their sizes. New college magazines, which usually face even tougher financial problems than the newspapers, will find it increasingly difficult to stay alive...
Many Irishmen were profanely skeptical, but the program so far has proved a gallivanting success. Ireland today is in the throes of a belated industrial revolution that is boosting living standards, diversifying its farm-based economy, and will increasingly absorb the talents that the nation breeds. Since 1955, 160 new Irish and foreign-backed plants have created 21,000 new jobs and are turning out goods ranging from transistor radios (Japanese) and pianos (Dutch) to heavy cranes for a German company and oil heaters for a French firm. Fifty more plants are nearing completion, most notably a French-owned aviation...
...invention. Though the painting has been cut down in size from the original work, there remains an effect of spacelessness. This is a typical bedroom in a typical Venetian palazzo of that day, but it is also like no bedroom that ever existed. The details and the subject matter absorb the eye only temporarily; in the end, the painting becomes a balance of space and a suffusion of colors...