Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although I enjoyed your story on Congress. I found Correspondent Neil Mac Neil's contention that what Congress needs is "some of the arrogance of past taskmasters who ran Congress with heavy hands." a little hard to swallow...
...first American President to lose a war." He related Viet Nam to Texas: "Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!" He promised: "I'll do anything except swallow my honor and betray my country to get peace...
...taxes would rise, but the burden would be spread more equitably than at present. At the least, Congress could allow special income tax deductions for Social Security taxes paid by the working poor. No serious revision of the present system is likely, however, as long as workers continue to swallow big tax increases without grumbling. While that situation lasts, it presents Congress and the President with a politically painless way of helping finance deficits in the non-Social Security part of the federal budget. The Social Security Administration is collecting more in taxes than it is paying out in benefits...
...that may now be a very large agenda for North Viet Nam to swallow, and the U.S. thinks it will have some indication of how things will go when talks between technical experts of both sides resume in Paris this week. And, since the full substance of negotiations and the reason for their resumption has not been made fully public, both sides in the end may be able to interpret any agreement as having won points and saved face...
...Clumly's blind wife. Gardner explores everything with love and forbearance, like an old-fashioned novelist who has forgotten he must compete with television, sex books and the Good Life for the raddled reader's attention. No matter. Raddled or not, readers should ignore the flaws. Swallow the magic apples. Brush up on terza rima (to identify those snippets of The Inferno that Gardner can't keep from including). Borrow a French dictionary (to translate Gardner's morsels of French). But press on at all costs to the end. The masterpiece to be found there...