Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...computer-controlled centrifuge will soon be available to determine how crews and their systems stand up under the G forces of rapid acceleration. The world's largest vacuum chamber, which bulges into the shape of a 120-ft. stainless-steel beer keg and is big enough to swallow an entire Apollo moonship, will go into operation later this year. At the edge of the space center, a field covered with heaps of steel-mill slag and pumice is used as a practice area for simulated exploration of a crater-pocked lunar landscape...
...former French Governor General, dresses simply in cream-colored, mandarin-style uniforms, and "Ho Chi Minh sandals" carved from automobile tires. For all the simple surface, his tastes are exquisite; he smokes American cigarettes (Philip Morris and Camels), and his favorite food is a rare delicacy called "swallow's nest"-a meringue of sea algae and swallow's saliva...
...Hoagland's hunch seemed to pay off. Methylphenidate not only roused would-be suicides from their comas, but it was also effective for patients suffering from coma resulting from brain damage and liver failure. For the first time, such patients were able to swallow food and medication, cough up sputum and mucus, thus avoiding one of coma's worst complications, suffocation...
...says "most Americans" don't swallow the idea of U.S. "combat support" in Viet Nam? Has any major pollster tapped grass-roots opinion lately...
...even from a post-adolescent female Holden Caufield could one swallow that...