Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Waldo dies "of spite like a boil burst at last with pus." Arthur flees the house, returns after three days, and is mercifully committed to the local asylum. It remains for the twins' twin dogs to prove that Waldo, if slightly incredible, is edible. Hungry dogs will swallow anything...
Puff, Puff. Idaho's Frank Church insisted that South Viet Nam was experiencing an "internal revolution," even though North Vietnamese troops were present, just as the U.S. experienced an internal revolution, even though there were "French revolutionary soldiers at Valley Forge." Rusk found that comparison hard to swallow. "I can't identify for a moment," said he, "the purposes of the Hanoi-inspired revolution of the 1960s with the purposes of the American Revolution in the 1770s...
...York State Thruway. Meandering 1,350 miles from Belém to Brasilia through the jungles and scrub of Brazil's wild interior, it is barely two lanes wide; the surface is dust in the dry season, mud in the wet, and some of the ruts could swallow a Volkswagen alive. Yet in the eyes of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who built the road between 1956 and 1960, BR-14 is "the highway of dreams" for underdeveloped Brazil, and the means to "a new civilization on the central plateau...
...small quantities from tropical plants. Then Dr. George Rosenkranz, at that time a Syntex research chemist, found that the Mexican yam, or barbasco root, yielded much larger amounts of diosgenin. In 1951 Syntex's Dr. Carl Djerassi first synthesized from it female sex hormones that women could swallow. Later it was discovered that the hormones were effective as an oral contraceptive. Syntex then began selling the compound to other drug firms, later introduced its own pill. Both Syntex and Searle now obtain their diosgenin from Mexican yams, which grow wild in the jungles. Rosenkranz, now Syntex's president...
Saturday's loss to the Elis before a packed house in the Nichols School Rink was a tough one to swallow. Harvard missed three clean breakaways, had shots on net to Yale's 20, and was off target with countless other tries but found goals as hard to come by as taxis in New York City...