Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spends an uncomfortable fifty minutes frantically scribbling down everything that is said. This kind of lecturer, would do the student a favor by handing out mimeographed copies of his lecture, for then the student would be certain that he had the facts straight, and he would be able to absorb them in a fraction of the time...
...tests will also demonstrate the electrical effects of high-altitude blasts. When a nuclear weapon explodes in the thin air more than ten miles above the earth, it creates vast numbers of long-lasting free electrons. If they are numerous enough, the electrons can absorb and reflect many kinds of radio waves. The AEC estimates that a one-megaton weapon bursting at a 50-mile altitude will disrupt high-frequency radio waves (the most useful kind for long-distance communication) for 600 miles around...
...magnetic field. Most of them will get entangled in the atmosphere, creating artificial auroras. A few that travel higher may drift around the earth until they are over the Atlantic Ocean, where the lopsidedness of the magnetic field will make them swoop lower; then the atmosphere will absorb them...
...Memorial Day breather gave Wall Street's harassed brokers and clerks a chance to catch up, and the nation time to absorb the news that the market was hardening. By Friday noon, as the buying fever subsided, the ticker tape caught up with orders for the first time since Monday. At the week's close, the Dow-Jones stood at 611.05-almost exactly even with the previous week's close of 611.88, before the Blue Monday began...
...publicly asked Senator Mundt what the U.S. would do if the Soviet Union suddenly allowed 300,000 hungry Russians a day to flood across the Bering Strait into U.S. territory. Senator Mundt stiffly replied that, in the event of Communist refugees flooding into the U.S., "we would receive and absorb as many as possible, and if unable to handle the problem, call on the free world to assist us." Which is precisely the course that Hong Kong adopted...