Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 2,000 ft. thick beneath the Taimyr Peninsula in Russia. Permafrost blocks well shafts, freezes oil drills, makes water piping and sewage disposal costly, heaves up 5-ft. hummocks in airport runways. Thawed, it only gets worse. Heated buildings tilt on their softened foundations. Blacktop highways often absorb enough heat to melt their way downhill...
...many seek, and believe they find, more than just happiness. Some of these people fall into the category of those who go through life collecting every available "experience." The more intellectual collect experiences, hold them up to the light, and dissect them meticulously; others simply absorb experiences indescriminately. Such people might find what they consider valuable experience in hitch-hiking to Peru, working on a garbage scow or sleeping with a Hottentot. Marijuana provides just one more piece of bric-a-brac for their emotional trophy case...
...tests that dealt with reactions to abstract patterns, and that graded the subjects on ability to understand and remember what they heard and read. Because of little-understood crossovers in the brain's circuitry, results of all the tests gave clues to each man's ability to absorb new ideas and deal with new words...
Admitting that "we are all a little deaf and dumb," Paul said: "Let us ex plain the points of doctrine that are still the object of controversy. We do not wish either to absorb or to humiliate all this great flowering of the Oriental churches, but yes, we do desire that this flowering be regrafted onto the one tree of the one church of Christ...
...Spokes. He has master-planned Irvine in three tiers. One, along the Pacific Coast, covering some 40,000 acres, will absorb the first wave of urbanization. Here will be a city, 31 miles south of overcrowded Newport Beach, and the beginning of a coastline dotted with beach clubs and marinas, ocean-centered communities and resort hotels. At the center will be the branch of the University of California on a 1,000-acre campus acting as a gigantic hub with spokes extruding into the surrounding residential area. Vast green stretches and extensive recreation areas, with industries scattered among them...