Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...measured against the primitive level of farming that prevailed before the reforms. They question whether such high yields can be sustained solely through intensive hand-cultivation of crops. Mechanizing the Chinese countryside would bring about needed changes in farming, but at a high price: widespread rural unemployment. To soak up excess labor and concentrate land in the hands of the most efficient peasants, China has launched a rural industrialization drive that has resulted in smokestacks, water towers and silos sprouting up in the provinces as fast as rice seedlings...
...vital marrow, which produces among other things the white blood cells that help the body guard against infection, but some of the Goiania victims are so radioactive that new bone marrow would simply become contaminated. All patients are undergoing frequent decontamination baths and are drinking special liquids designed to soak up radiation...
Some scholars see more foam than substance in Katz's notion. "Hunters and gatherers did not have the pottery to put stuff in to soak," objects Anthropology Curator Robert Carneiro of the American Museum of Natural History. Other academics point out that the theory has been suggested before and remains speculative. But Katz claims no proprietary insight. "We all know nothing is so simple as a single cause," he observes. Having a tall cool one, however, "is maybe a more important part of the process toward domestication than we had previously thought...
...against...other than the whirling fantasies of a studious mind. At the 'Muffin, during those five minute study pauses absolutely necessary for prevention of brain damage, you avoided suffering through the stifled mutters and echoing snuffles of bored undergraduates. Instead, the Bottomless Mug patron can sit back and happily soak in the gentle bustle of cafe life, and then, refreshed, ease back into work...
...could hardly come right out with it and say the works of Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis (quite apart from the thousands of yards of lyric acrylic on unprimed duck done by their many forgotten imitators) were basically huge watercolors. But there was little in the soak-stain methods of color-field painting that did not seek and repeat watercolor effects. The big difference lay in the size, the curtness and (sometimes) the grandeur of the image, and in the scrutiny it received from Greenberg's disciples, rocking and muttering over the last grain of pigment...