Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alright, sir, I was bugging a phone booth on Massachusetts Avenue and R.W. Appleseed caught me off guard. I had to swallow...
...labor peace prevails in the rest of the economy, its price could be high, especially since production and profits are rising swiftly. Unless the Administration's new ceiling on meat prices brings substantially lower living costs, many union men fear that inflation will swallow a big chunk of whatever pay raises they get. If prices stay high, labor leaders have no intention of settling for anything so modest as the 6.2% annual increase in wages and fringe benefits specified under Nixon Administration guidelines. Says James J. Matles, general secretary of the United Electrical Workers, who began bargaining with General...
...Jersey, the state's two Senators angrily oppose the superport projects, and Governor William T. Cahill bluntly calls them "unacceptable." At congressional hearings on the subject last week, Delaware's Senator Joseph R. Biden warned that if just one tanker splits apart, the oil spill "probably would swallow up my whole state...
...Japanese yen as well; they unloaded their dollars in staggering quantities. The West German Bundesbank had to buy more than $6 billion in six days to keep the price from falling below the floor of 3.15 marks set by international agreement. The Bank of Japan was forced to swallow more than $1 billion...
...natural voice could have carried her into an operatic or lieder career. Smoky and sinuous in its middle range, it leaps effortlessly between octaves (sometimes going as high as an Yma Sumac "super F" above high C). Sometimes it skitters exhilaratingly around its bright upper reaches, then makes darting swallow-like swoops into the dark, resonant chest-tone regions of a Marilyn Home...