Word: absorbingly
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...something, of course. The insurgents' Ramadaan offensive has seen three U.S. helicopters shot down, a daily dose of ambushes and audacious and high profile guerrilla and terror strikes, and upward of 60 coalition troops killed within the past two weeks alone. No military force is going to absorb upward of 30 attacks a day week after week without hitting back hard in order to reassert its deterrent capability. The problem facing U.S. troops in Baghdad and the Sunni Triangle, however, is that the enemy is largely invisible, and unless the civilian population is willing to blow the whistle...
...captain of the rugby club,” Miller said. “It taught me to absorb enormous poundings, unfair cheap shots...
According to Carens, HCL intends to absorb the Gov Docs materials into Littauer, and transfer all responsibility for reference assistance to its current staff...
...Kazan] conceived and co-founded the most influential teaching institution in U.S. theater history, the Actors Studio ... In the '60s he would absorb much of the blame for the failed first attempt to establish a repertory theater at New York City's Lincoln Center and amaze himself, among others, by becoming a best-selling novelist (The Arrangement). A sense of worthlessness, Kazan says, is what drove him. It stemmed from his foreignness (he immigrated to the U.S. with his Greek parents when he was four); his lack of social status at Williams College, which he worked his way through...
Only cypress wood was used, probably for its ability to absorb water...