Word: engrosses
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This would still maintain the integrity of reading period, because it would allow students to engross themselves in their work. It would also prevent cramming studying into a day or two, as other schools do, and would reward us with more than five days of intersession. It would be easier to travel because one would not be required to make two trips homed, and the constant threat of exams would not hang over one's head during vacation...
...directly personal, and the souls bared are badly damaged. Every one of the album's 10 cuts is chilling: two characters face electrocution for murders; there are two other shootings; another character seeks to elude a state trooper; four of his men are out of work. But the songs engross rather than repel because of their sincerity and severity...
...bill must still be enacted by the state senate today, but the unopposed vote to engross yesterday means the petition "is past its real legislative hurdle," George A. Bachrach, state senator for Cambridge and a co-sponsor of the petition said yesterday, adding that today's vote is only a formality...
...bill is engrossed when it is written in the correct legal form and formally presented to the senate or house of representatives for enactment. The senate usually only votes to engross bills that will be enacted, Bachrach said...
...consumes an entire page in what his title indicates is a desperate attempt to rationalize the March Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon. But in so doing, he considers it unnecessary to provide any political-historical context behind the aggressive Israeli move, and instead finds it a sufficient justification to engross the reader in emotional details of the physical and psychological traumas experienced by northern Israeli kibbutzniks who are under perpetual fear of Palestinian rockets launched from southern Lebanon...