Word: absorbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having thus presented an unbroken, if slightly mottled, front to the world, the members trooped into the White House state dining room for luncheon. The occasion was to be strictly social; they were to meet the President and Cabinet and quietly absorb 32 pounds of smelt which an American Legion post had just sent from the State of Washington's Cowlitz River...
Fronts & Purges. Marx did not absorb the morals of the dialectic immediately. When, at 24, he became editor of the Rheinische Zeitung (a paper owned by bourgeois and written by their radical sons), he promptly ordered contributors to stop smuggling socialist propaganda into casual drama reviews; he said the practice was downright "immoral...
Consequently, both drama groups must constantly aim for popular theater, because they simply cannot afford a flop. Experimental plays--in the now time-honored tradition of college theater in this country--are had risks here, and it is virtually impossible to build up financial reserves to absorb any loss sustained for the sake of experiments, or even bad plays...
...remembering the great strike of 1946, unions approached management in the latter half of 1947 with a sweet reasonableness that was further sugared by the Taft-Hartley Act. Management was reasonable also; it granted wage boosts, then raised prices to absorb them...
Body Broadcasts. They collected data on vapors and discovered that all those studied which have odors can absorb certain bands of infra-red with waves between 7½ and 14 microns long. Vapors without odors do not absorb these wave lengths. Since the human body at normal temperature radiates heat waves chiefly m the 7½-14 band, it looked as if the ability to absorb heat waves on the "body's broadcast frequency" is what makes vapors smellable...