Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regain his selfesteem, the loser typically reduces his anguish by explaining away his defeat. Show business's fallen stars often justify their decline in terms of a mysterious force known as The Breaks (another word for fate). Other losers absorb defeat by joining a less competitive game, such as local community activism, which gives them a new chance to emerge as winners...
...annual convention last week was the most signal recognition their organization had witnessed in all its 73 years. The 2,800 delegates and their guests roared approval as the President listed among his "five new freedoms" the right of every citizen "to get all the education that he can absorb." Equally attractive was the declared "right of every American to as healthy a life as modern medicine can provide." The N.M.A. had won a different sort of recognition earlier in the week simply by meeting in Houston, where its presence at the Shamrock-Hilton Hotel, and even in its pool...
...pair of treelike bony structures located above each gill cavity, the organs absorb oxygen from the air to supplement the oxygen normally taken in from water passing through the gills...
Mozambique itself will absorb a growing amount of electric power: the dam will be the cornerstone of a vast development scheme designed to transform the wilderness, which is infested with tsetse flies and mosquitoes, into what the Portuguese like to think will become the Ruhr of Africa. Among the area's natural resources are known reserves of nickel, copper and asbestos, plus a twelve-mile-long seam of coal and iron deposits that could produce an annual 1,000,000 tons...
...summer job. The Labor Department figures that only 11.5 million of them will find jobs of any sort. One reason is that, despite big draft calls and a booming economy, such perennial employers of student power as construction and retail trades are soft. Even political campaigns, which absorb many young volunteers, are not taking up the slack...