Word: engrossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...