Word: soaks
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Four years as an undergraduate. A division of time in which, we are told, we soak up something of the essence of civilization and the forces that make us and keep us free. Yet how often does one of the products of this Four Years come home from the office, open his collar, and complain that he is too tired to read a "worth while" book? How many college graduates-or specifically, Harvard graduates-regard the Four Years as one particular phase of their lives, to be approached, digested, and then forgotten in the exigencies of the "real, concrete" side...
Mireille is left to soak in the tub for 48 hours, then driven to a Paris suburb and dumped into a pond. A bit later, when Ravinel returns to discover his wife's "suicide." her body has disappeared...
...luncheonette manager said that he doesn't want to "soak" his customers...
...thing about all this folderol is that it may prove very popular. The huge CinemaScope screen floods the moviegoer with so much wonderful Florida sunshine that he is apt to sit back, happy as a grapefruit, and soak it up-ignoring the silly background babble of all those Hollywood tourists...
Calamity Jane (Warner) is a good picture to come in late on. In that way the moviegoer can hear a little amiable shouting by Doris Day and Howard Keel, soak up some pleasant Technicolor, and leave under the illusion that the yammering chaos of the plot is put in order by something he missed in the first reel...