Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sheer volume of the fatal mouthful is often breathtakingly large: the average chunk of food extracted from the windpipe of victims, Eller and Haugen say, is about the size of a cigarette pack; in one case, they report, the piece was over 7 in. long. The temptation to swallow such unmanageable amounts seems to be greatest among those with poor teeth or dentures, although a few drinks make eaters of any age more careless about their chewing. Alcohol also slows the normal gagging reaction, allowing food to lodge far down the windpipe, with often fatal results. The typical victim...
...Sack, because "a lie violated the inner consistency of what every soldier did in Viet Nam." He is thus viewed as a loyal robot unable to make moral distinctions, while at the same time Sack tells us about Calley's intelligence and honor. Few readers are likely to swallow such contradictions. Despite Sack's intent to exculpate Calley, the My Lai triggerman (still confined to base at Fort Benning) comes across as a very shrewd robot, cynically using the truth to embarrass the Army and deflect his own guilt...
...lack of food, frequent beatings, and torture of all varieties, with the the most popular apparently applying electric shocks to men's and women's genitals, subjecting prisoners to blazing lamps, sticking pins through their fingers, forcing bottles and other objects up women's vaginas, and forcing people to swallow large quantities of clear or soapy water and then jumping up and down on their stomachs...
...Your reporters are more accurate than the White House staff, but not much more. I voted for Humphrey, not Nixon, in '68 [July 9]. My vote for Nixon was in '72 -along with a few other Democrats who just couldn't swallow George McGovern...
...suck it? No? You swallow it? I'll swallow it." But at other times: "Those kids who touch drugs are crazy when they can have a drink of Southern Comfort...