Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slap the hogs away from the trough." In trouble, Johnson has not only shown himself eager to shake hands with Negroes, but has also gone hat in hand to seek Faubus' blessing. Faubus, in turn, is urging his supporters to "come to the lick log" (Arkansas argot meaning swallow your pride and back Johnson). Nonetheless, with a private poll showing Rockefeller ahead with 52% to Johnson's 43%, Arkansas should elect its first Republican Governor in 94 years...
...music side, the new troubadours are experimenting with all manner of sounds and complex musical modes. Says Jazz Bassist Steve Swallow: "There is a scarcity of young jazzmen because the most talented young people are playing rock 'n' roll. They have saved songwriting from the tyranny of Irving Berlin...
...released from the asylum to beg about the country, like Poor Tom in King Lear. Deitch plays him as a controlled crafty-plotter--a fuzzy combination of Puck and an American confidence-man. His dress and manner is stylized motley rather than lunatic tatters. His elegant flourishing makes him swallow the many good jokes he has, and completely twist his character...
...pale taffy pull of a girl with the cringing whine of an eternal sycophant and the wily compliance of a slave. At the arbitrary whim of Sister George, Childie must kneel and kiss the hem of her master's skirt, drink her dirty bath water or chew and swallow one of her soggy cigar butts. Childie's fraud is that while she plays the lesbian, she lusts after men and cheats on Sister George...
...bill thus covers 23 million of the nation's 60 million housing units (only 6,000,000 of them in the suburbs), leaving 60% of all U.S. housing and virtually all private houses unaffected by its provisions. And there are signs that the Senate may refuse to swallow even the remaining two-fifths of the loaf when the bill comes before it next month...