Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...
...caricature of an intellectual. When Francois brings Pomme to a party, he listens attentively to a friend describe the current era as "the age of the box." Pomme looks bewildered, but it's unclear whether the narrative aims at showing her as intellectually inadequate or merely unable to swallow the crap. Given this ambivalent attitude about Francois, it's difficult to feel a deep sense of loss when the inevitable break-up occurs...
Yesterday's unseemly performance was especially hard to swallow since last year the Crimson placed second behind the Tigers with both Rafto and Eichner earning all-Ivy honors by virtue of finishing seventh and eighth respectively...
...technical or academic writing's your game, Skinne would be worth checking out when he speaks on "How to Discover What You Have to Say" on Wednesday, October 19 at 4 p.m. in Science Center B. If you are a free-flowing humanist, you probably won't swallow his theories, but Skinner has enough to say that he may be worth your while anyway...
...position in U.S. consumer drugs. Last week it moved to do so, by offering "at least" $40 a share for a controlling interest in Miles Laboratories, Elkhart Ind.-based maker of Alka-Seltzer and One-a-Day vitamins. If Bayer bought all 5.4 million Miles shares, the purchase would swallow $216 million of the $500 million that Bayer has pledged to invest in the U.S. during the next five years...