Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visits each of the top tables, toasting each Chinese official with a clink, a touch of his glass to his lips. For the Americans there, it is a moving moment. There is the suspicion that the Chinese like it too. But who really knows? The night and the silence swallow everybody again. The visitors go back to their hotels in buses, passing shadowy figures on bicycles, a thin moon shining through the cold. Nixon goes off somewhere and that immense silence closes in again...
...Burgess novel has for years been an underground classic. A nihilistic put-down of an English welfare state grown large enough to make its population (willingly) swallow dubious measures it dictates, the book attacks not only this future society but the unthinking few who rebel from it. Alex, the narrator, is the fifteen-year-old leader of a street gang, one of many which terrorize unwary citizens in poorly-policed night hours. He is a sadistic punk, only a little better than the authority figures he confronts, and no better than the elders he kills and rapes. If his NADSAT...
Mountaineers do not look to welfare as a solution. "I can tell my wife to say I've deserted her, and she'll get money from the city, but I couldn't swallow my pride that way. My wife says she tried to say it, just to herself, and she broke down and cried." All the same, the mountaineers don't want pity and resent "the liberal types" who "love having a man like me to feel sorry for." In the end, they suffer?or go home, like the mountaineer who left Cleveland for his beloved McVeigh, Ky., explaining that...
Even the most gullible of Egyptians found that hard to swallow; seldom if ever has the Suez had any fog in the blistering month of July, when the otherwise unrecorded incident supposedly took place. Round the capital, Sadat's TV appearance quickly became known as the "Fog Speech." Three days after it was delivered, a professor at the Ein Shams University in suburban Heliopolis sarcastically lectured at a student meeting about "fog over Egypt." Hundreds of Ein Shams' 38,000 students rapidly took part in teach-ins. Before long, protests spread across town to Cairo University, where vocal...
...those who say the days of Chile's popular government are numbered, I say that they can swallow their tongues." So recently declared Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens, the first Marxist head of state to win office through a free election. Nonetheless, wagging tongues inside and out of Chile continue to predict doom for Allende's 14-month-old Popular Unity coalition. Their predictions may be premature, but Chile's economic problems are steadily worsening, and the opposition forces of the Christian Democrats and the rightist National Party are increasing their attacks on Allende, whose popularity...