Word: absorbingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shower head to form filaments-but its molecular structure has been changed through the use of new chemicals in the manufacturing process. Whereas the old rayon shrank in the rain and often broke up in the family washing machine, the new fiber is stronger and shrinkproof, while retaining the absorbent qualities of the old fiber. Nowadays it is usually blended with a cheap grade of cotton to produce such items as bed sheets that feel like percale and towels that can be dyed brilliantly and absorb more water than cotton. Because of Government supports that peg the cheapest cotton...
...Religious life should and will be integrated in One Religion which should and will absorb or replace existing sects...
...hardened under ground emplacements by the end of 1965, and the U.S. also has 176 submarine-borne Polaris missiles, 108 Titans, and a force of up to 1,300 long-range bombers. Said the President: "We are clearly capable of destroying an aggressor even if forced to absorb a first strike. Under these conditions, further substantial increases in our strategic forces would soon be of diminishing value." There are those who disagree-notably Air Force Chief of Staff Curtis E. LeMay and G.O.P. Presidential Aspirant Barry Goldwater-and there is likely to be an outcry in Congress for more funds...
...conditioners, cheap farm machinery and gasoline engines for new nations, and fresh ideas in urban mass transportation. General Electric Economist Nelson Foote believes that one of the nation's basic needs is to keep the suburbs growing because of the vast number of products that new homes can absorb. The trick, he thinks, is to develop a good, low-priced house, and to create job opportunities for working wives outside cities...
...classic example took place in Los Angeles' sprawling San Fernando Valley, a municipal crazy quilt that has managed to absorb almost 1,000,000 densely packed residents without turning into a cohesive city. The Valley's loudest voice is a giveaway newspaper, the Van Nuys News and Valley Green Sheet, which covers the area as comprehensively as smog. In 1960 the Cowles Newspapers group (eight dailies in three states and Puerto Rico) invaded the Green Sheet's domain. Cowles bought the Valley Times, an undistinguished daily with 50,000 paid circulation, and spent three years trying...