Word: absorbs
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Crashing the Cabinet. In the face of heckling by table-banging Socialists, Adenauer once faltered. Strauss leaped to his feet, bellowed the opposition into silence as he argued that Russia was out to absorb Germany and that Germany's only hope lay with alliance with the West. "However much I like to see them talk to each other, I still would not like to see Dr. Adenauer and Dr. Schumacher [then Socialist leader] talk behind barbed wire in the Urals about what they should have done in the spring of 1952," he cried. Der Alte was so moved that...
Noting that public approval greets every new expenditure for the conquest of space, Rochow asked: "Aren't we actually witnessing a phenomenon which has interest, enthusiasm, which can absorb energies and masculine drive, and which could make the question of war passe...
Carbon 14 has a half life of 5,700 years, i.e., half its atoms disintegrate in that time, giving off radiation. Living plants absorb C14 from the air, and animals get it from plants. Therefore, newly formed organic matter starts out with a standard amount of carbon 14, but after the plant or animal dies, the C14 in its tissues slowly diminishes. When the amount remaining is measured by means of its radiation, the time that has passed since death can be calculated accurately...
During that winter and spring, politics continued to absorb almost everyone's attention. After victory in November, FDR pushed through his famous "court-packing bill" and added six justices to the Supreme Court. President Conant denounced the plan as "contrary to the spirit of a free, democratic country...
...study habits, change is fairly visible, largely reflecting the way grades measure up to expectation, but, when forced to abandon their own habits as inadequate, Freshmen do not rely on Harvard experience, for they have not been around long enough, or been sufficiently at ease to absorb the approaches characteristic of Harvard...