Word: blottered
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...across arched bridges over the carp pond. Promptly at 10:30 a.m. they filed into the pink brick Georgian mansion, past the Byzantine and mediaeval objets d'art, into the high-ceilinged music room. There they arranged themselves around a huge U-shaped table covered with the inevitable blotter pads...
...forests grow prodigiously without cultivation? Because, answers Faulkner, they are fed TIME, July 26, 1943 and protected by decaying plants on the surface of the soil. Plowing buries this organic material beyond the reach of most roots. Besides depriving the new crop of food, the buried vegetation forms a blotter that soaks up moisture from above and below, draws it away from the surface, where it is needed...
Several incidents were rumored last week but only one got onto the police blotter. The trouble has been appearing off and on for years, but it has not been so widespread until recently...
...fact that each of those B's had a little dash connoting minus after it did not lessen the ecstasy he felt in his mouth as those delicious sounds rolled off his tongue; four B's, four B's. That night, with his head resting on his desk blotter, Vag dreamed that he had joined the immortals...
Donald, at that, is fit to be tied. But the radio goes to work on him. "Taxes to beat the Axis!" it chants. When the Duck realizes what armament his money will buy, he can't wait for Tax Day. His pen, blotter, inkwell, account book go to work on his short-form income-tax blank (for incomes under $3,000). Donald finds he owes a $13 tax. He scurries all the way to Washington to get it in on time...