Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During that winter and spring, politics continued to absorb almost everyone's attention. After victory in November, FDR pushed through his famous "court-packing bill" and added six justices to the Supreme Court. President Conant denounced the plan as "contrary to the spirit of a free, democratic country...
...study habits, change is fairly visible, largely reflecting the way grades measure up to expectation, but, when forced to abandon their own habits as inadequate, Freshmen do not rely on Harvard experience, for they have not been around long enough, or been sufficiently at ease to absorb the approaches characteristic of Harvard...
...self-government built up under the colonial regime should tide the country over such difficulties as may emerge in the first years of independence, and the move towards economic development is at least spottily under way. It must, however, be very much speeded and expanded if it is to absorb the flood of youngsters pouring from the primary schools, educated to a distaste for return to the farms but not educated enough to qualify them for the white collar jobs which they crave and which are presently non-existent in the numbers required. The far smaller numbers of the secondary...
...open the floodgates of the Treasury; it must be justified by the national interest. But self-interest alone seems too harsh; it must be mellowed by the sweeter talk of conscience. In all this taradiddle there is no mention of the actual political, social, and economic settings that must absorb the generosity of the West...
...companies that are using their shelf stock to meet sales will eventually have to replenish their stock. But what pleased Government economists was the inventory decline's minor effect on the economy. Although inventory retrenchment has been going on for months, the economy has been able to absorb the loss without any great damage. The question now was how long the inventory decline would continue...