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Word: swallow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thick air was relieved when he sat down. It was a painfully convincing act. Kennedy had shown that the cost of doing nothing at all about health insurance would be disastrous in human and economic terms. But despite the governors' rapt attention to the speech, they still couldn't swallow it. About 24 of the 35 governors present voiced opinions against Kennedy's proposal following the speech...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: The Cost of Doing Nothing | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

...course, only the most zealously fanatic believers in the apartheid system could swallow that feeble explanation; soon it was apparent to the entire world that the young leader died as the result of repeated beatings by his jailers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering Steve Biko | 9/15/1978 | See Source »

...course, only the most zealously fanatic believers in the apartheid system could swallow that feeble explanation; soon it was apparent to the entire world that the young leader died as the result of repeated beatings by his jailers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering Steve Biko | 9/14/1978 | See Source »

...course, only the most zealously fanatic believers in the apartheid system could swallow that feeble explanation; soon it was apparent to the entire world that the young leader died as the result of repeated beatings by his jailers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering Steve Biko | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...flung back out at much greater speed. This material could be caught and its extra energy harnessed, like rushing water, to power the civilization. The only hitch: the engineers would have to be careful not to "feed" the black hole too much garbage, lest its event horizon expand and swallow up the whole civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Those Baffling Black Holes | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

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