Word: absorbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators were shocked. Oregon's Wayne Morse asked whether Randolph realized that such civil disobedience would probably be prosecuted as treason. He did, and added: "We would be willing to absorb the violence, absorb the terrorism, face the music, and take whatever comes...
Before the Philadelphia convention next June, a major job of the nation's voters will be to absorb, weigh and compare the records in the Republican Who's Who of presidential candidates. Herewith, in the first of a series, TIME publishes the condensed biography and political record of New York's Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey...
...early "Model T" bombs were designed to give maximum shock effect. Up-to-date bombs, intended to make the most of the radioactive effect, may be angled differently. Their explosive plutonium hearts may be surrounded by material chosen for its ability to absorb radiation and neutrons. When the bomb goes off they would turn into extra-deadly isotopes. Such a bomb would be a double threat. It could devastate a comparatively small area by shock and heat. Then the isotope fog could drift slowly downwind, killing by radiation...
Today marks the end of the prevacation line for the CRIMSON. No paper tomorrow, and then a week's rest to absorb the coming of spring, the orders say. The next regular publication date is Monday morning, April...
...each of the divisions, such as the Law School or the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, must operate within the limits of its own resources. The University itself, apart from any of the divisions, has an annual income of about $2 million, some of which is ordinarily used to absorb deficits shown in various relatively minor divisions, such as the library and veterans housing, at the end of a year. But the University considers it bad business to commit its money, and when the estimated costs for the year of such a major division as the Faculty of Arts...