Word: swallow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zedillo is taking the politically risky steps of slashing government spending and jacking up interest rates to slow the economy and wean it from its dependence on ``hot money''--foreign investments in securities that can easily be dumped. Says Allen Sinai, the chief economist for Lehman Bros.: ``Mexico must swallow a recession. If the government can hang in there and people can live through a year of austerity, the economy will be on its way. But it's going to be a real test of the country...
...some places 3 to 4 km beyond its banks in the waterlogged Ardennes. At least 3,000 houses were inundated in Charleville-Mezieres, the site of widespread damage just 13 months ago. Citizens passing a bronze plaque defining the 1993 high-water level watched the Meuse gradually reach and swallow the marker last week...
Harvard tries hard and usually plays evenly for the first half. In the current losing streak, the team has been tied at the break four times and ahead three times, but each game the same demons come up and swallow the Crimson...
...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
Even some of the tank crews were made up of men who had never trained together. The slipshod organization produced not just confusion -- the Russians suffered many casualties from "friendly fire" -- but ineffectiveness in combat. Generals should know that on the battlefield, soldiers swallow their fear and fight to support their buddies. If troops do not know one another, the essential bond does not exist, and they tend to shrink from action. The unseasoned draftees had no warm clothes or food to ward off the bitter cold; most did not know where they were or what their mission...