Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Vietnamese officers are eager to absorb U.S. techniques and combat tactics, and on the military level, U.S. suggestions and Vietnamese orders mesh efficiently. In politics, the situation is more difficult. Last week a government plane flew over Red-held territory to drop prop aganda leaflets bearing Diem's New Year's message to his people. The plane crashed, killing eight Americans and two Vietnamese. Another plane was scheduled to take off later and scatter more leaflets, this .time bearing a good-will message from President John Kennedy. Both sets of leaflets could not be dropped from...
...pointed out that the extent to which the Summer School could expand has not been carefully studies and dorm space in the Harvard Houses is still available. One chief concern, Crooks said, is whether Lamont could accommodate many more students. Other libraries, "although not air-conditioned like Lamont," could absorb the extra scholars, however...
...with Moscow consisted of West German machinery and semifinished metal goods for Soviet petroleum products and commercial gold used in jewelry. A third major category of Russian exports is foodstuffs, but, said one Bonn official last week: "There's a limit to how much caviar this country can absorb...
...objects were contaminated in a most remarkable way soon after they arrived on earth, or else organisms have been transmitted from outside the earth's atmosphere." But Physicist Edward Fireman of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge points out that carbonaceous chondrites are porous and notoriously eager to absorb moisture, including organism-bearing sweat from the hands of people who touch them. He suspects that during the long years that the two meteorites have been on earth they had many opportunities to take earthly life into their crevices. He refuses to believe that the Claus-Nagy "organized elements" really...
...round of the pro draft. Says one scouting report: "He throws excellent short passes, hard and fast, and he's physically rugged. This means that he is strong enough to wait until the last moment to deliver, allowing his receivers to get into ideal position-and he can absorb the beating he'll have to take for waiting so long." The pros also praise the versatility of Kansas' John Hadl, 21 (6 ft. 1 in., 198 Ibs.), who runs, punts, and passes accurately off the option play, probably will switch to halfback in the play...