Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...account, he was just another warhawk when he took a senatorial excursion to South Vietnam, where--by simply keeping his eyes open--he found out things which completely contradicted officials dogma. Yet there is something in Young's attitude that makes the quick-change act incredibly hard to swallow. He is skeptical not only about the administration's Vietnam policy, but about the administration, period. And if, like certain other Senate liberals, Young avoids attacking the President directly, he more than makes up for it in his comments on the Secretary of State...
...season opened, it has not been a bad year for the icemen, and a win tonight will give Coach Cooney Weiland and his skaters something sweet to remember for the next nine months. Besides, three losses to Yale in one season is more than any Crimson-blooded athlete can swallow...
...they lack even true satirical purpose, or what Critic G. K. Chesterton in A Defence of Nonsense called "a kind of exuberant capering round a discovered truth." A craze occurs when an acquired taste unaccountably becomes an addiction. Without ever believing in it, audiences find the spoofery easy to swallow. But mock espionage may be hard put to survive a throng of second-string undercover men who seem badly in need of vocational guidance...
...defense of U.S. purposes and policies. The objective, he said, is not "the occupation of all South Viet Nam or the hunting down of the last armed guerrilla" but rather the nation's independence and freedom from attack. An ancillary aim is to discourage future Communist attempts to swallow "weak nations which are vulnerable targets for subversive aggression-to use the proper term for the 'war of liberation.' " The importance of the conflict can be measured in part by the fact that "it is considered so important by the other side...
Clearly, the board will have to surrender some of its power. This may be a bitter pill to swallow, especially in public. But for the sake of St. John's more than 13000 students, the school's reputation and the reputation of Catholic education in general, it will have to be does...