Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found that their flesh contained an unusual amount of caesium 137. After that, the story unfolded with dangerous logic. The caribou's winter food is largely lichens, a primitive plant that has no roots but gets its moisture and nutrients entirely from the air. Its spongy tissues soak up the scant Arctic rain like blotting paper and retain a large part of it. The fallout that is carried down by the rain is retained too. Instead of mixing harmlessly with the soil, it goes into the stomachs of caribou and becomes part of their bones and flesh. When Eskimos...
...skulls, as well as a huge red and yellow bowl containing human thigh-and hipbones-suggesting that the Teotihuacanos may have practiced cannibalism. Teotihuacanos also practiced autosacrifice to Chicome Xochitl, a god of flowers. In this rite the worshiper slashed his own finger or eyelids, allowed the blood to soak into porous paper, which was then burned in small clay bowls...
...customer may sometimes wonder where in the world he is and why he isn't somewhere else. After a few hundred shots he will probably begin to giggle more or less continuously, even though he knows he will be sorry in the morning. Gabin is a merry old soak. He is also the grand old man of French films. He began his career as the Clark Gable of Gaul; he is ending it as Wallace Beery in a beret...
...ghosts of the Depression have long since vanished from most segments of U.S. life?but in the internal revenue code, the soak-the-rich tone lingers on. In a departure from the old ideology of his party. President Kennedy has recognized that it is time to de-ghost the tax laws...
...high progressive rates, then, do not really soak the rich. The most soaked victims of the present tax structure are taxpayers in the upper-middle income brackets, business executives and professional men who receive all or nearly all of their income from salaries (or from fees or royalties not sheltered from taxation). Such people typically have only meager net assets despite their hefty pretax incomes. Far from accumulating capital, they often have to borrow to put their children through college. They attain their levels of prosperity only after many years of gradually working their way up, bucking a headwind...