Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some time, certainly, many business thinkers agreed, the backed-up purchasing power would soak up whatever was offered. Thus reconversion could be pulled through. This dormant purchasing power would release an unprecedented flood of consumer durable goods-houses and household equipment, television sets and autos and private planes...
...moved forward into the congregation of Higgins boats, jostling and bumping, while destroyers fired arching red balls ashore. Then the red balls seemed to bounce back, and we realized with horror that the Japs were thoroughly awakened and were returning fire. The jungle remained inviolate, as though it could soak up all the fire we could pour...
...magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...
...tags come, we'll be required to wear two. "One to stay with the body, and one to send to Washington," what, no six copies to S & A, BuPers, and the SERVICE NEWS? and while we're on the subject of the NEWS, they may soon try to soak us for this rag (affectionate term), something around a quarter a month, maybe less. We don't think it's worth it, but then we're prejudiced...
...inspected the infection with the glasses. He saw at once that it was a carbuncle and shouted his prescription: "Soak continually in Epsom salt compresses. Don't lance. Give 40 grains sulfathiazole by mouth. Take plenty of fluid." Then we steamed back to our place in the escort...