Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshman picnic at Radcliffe Yard. The brochure says this event is "informal." Actually, you have to go out and buy a tux or evening gown to dine on rubbery chicken. Actually, you don't. You may as well trek up Garden St. to absorb the atmosphere, lie on the grass, maybe meet a few new people. Avoid the food, though...
...itself for the November showdown. The leaders of the National Unity Campaign--Michigan division for Rep. John B. Anderson (R-III.)--insist that it was only a coincidence that they opened their Detroit headquarters last Saturday, two days before their former bedmates hit town and just in time to absorb the overflow of media coverage seeping through the walls of Cobo Hall...
Dalton is 33, which is practically Geritol territory by music-biz standards. But her years have allowed her to absorb some of the hard knocks and low blows that give a good old country tune perspective. She grew up in the hills of east-central Pennsylvania, on the fringes of the mining belt. Her father was a guide on a hunting preserve ("He was a good shot. I grew up eating venison"). Her mother, trained as a beautician, worked counters at local truck stops. During long evenings at home, her father played guitar, mandolin and banjo, and her mother sang...
Harper's (circ. 325,000) had been on the block for nearly a year. Religious and other special-interest groups made inquiries but were turned away as unsuitable owners; other prospective buyers were unwilling to absorb the maga zine's hefty operating losses and its liability of $3 million in prepaid subscriptions. Editor Lewis H. Lapham and two partners failed in a last-hour rescue attempt...
America may be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but there is a limit to how far our freedom and fortitude will stretch. With the massive influx of the "lumpen" of Castro's despotic regime, our already ailing economy will have to absorb the shock of thousands of new members of the work force. It is time to close the doors and remedy our own economic and domestic ills...