Word: gulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's politically naïve many and politically cynical few may have swallowed this without even a gulp of tea, but outside of Russia it did not go down so well. Croaked the London Daily Mirror's caustic Columnist Cassandra: "Come off it, you gnarled old humbug! If ever a man picked up the starting gun and fired it to throw the world into war, that man was Comrade J. Stalin. . . . We can do without this hypocritical bilge, Comrade...
...freedom of our country will merge with the struggle of the peoples of Europe and America for their independence, for democratic liberties." Here Comrade Stalin swallowed another gulp of tea and thanked Great Britain and the U.S. for their offers of aid. Calling on all the people to rally around, not the Communist State, but "the party of Lenin-Stalin," he concluded: "Forward, to our victory...
...assistance which is in our power and which is likely to be of service to them. We shall bomb Germany by day as well as by night in ever-increasing measure, casting upon them month by month a heavier discharge of bombs and making the German people taste and gulp each month a sharper dose of the miseries they have showered upon mankind...
...deficit . . . threatens the solvency of the U. S. The President still believes in spending Government money as if it were water" (Senator Robert Taft, Ohio); "... A minimum of what we ought to do . . ." (Senator Alben Barkley, Kentucky); "My digestion is not good enough to take it down at one gulp" (Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan); "I'm for adequate national defense, if it takes our shirt" (Senator Tom Connally, Texas); "... a trick budget . . . juggling of figures . . . what we need today is to curtail drastically non-defense spending . . ." (Senator Harry Byrd, Virginia...
Another convention highlight: Aviators' Blackouts. After breathing the thin air of high altitudes for a while, fliers sometimes faint when they gulp oxygen from their tanks or dive swiftly to richer air. In other words, their blackout may not be due to too little oxygen but to a sudden supply of too much. Last week the University of Pennsylvania's Pharmacologist Carl Frederic Schmidt, a top-notch U. S. respirationist, explained...