Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballroom of Omaha's Hotel Fontenelle, the United Lutherans re-elected their perennial president (he has held the job since the church was organized in 1918): precise, white-goateed Dr. Frederick Hermann Knubel, 70, of Manhattan. Dr. Knubel admitted he could swallow the articles of agreement only by "gulping." The United Lutherans, who think some parts of the Scripture more important than others, had to swallow hard too. But under Dr. Knubel's brisk leadership and spurred by their desire for unity, gulp them the United Lutherans...
Meanwhile Dave progressed to $25 a week as editor and business manager of the Shelton Independent. One day the Tacoma News-Tribune phoned, asked how he would like to go to work there. Stunned, Dave James managed to gulp: "Yes." News-Tribune condition: Dave must write at least one Rochester tale a week...
...providing a "liberal education", its students are necessarily a little self-conscious. They haven't acquired that imperviousness to public attention of the proverbial goldfish in the bowl. (Their interest in the business of education and distaste for what are called extra-curricular activities would never let them gulp the contents...
...burlap shorts, the straps of his sandals and his arm muscles to the same degree. When all the tensions are equal, he attacks the canvas like a tiger. After four hours' work, he is so exhausted that he must go down to the beach, swim out and gulp sea water...