Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room for a few minutes Monday night; when he returned, he reportedly discovered a man waiting behind the door. The intruder was holding a revolver and carried a knife in his belt. He commanded Resnick to sit down, handed him a small bottle, and ordered him at gunpoint to swallow the pills inside...
...SOUND OF MUSIC. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical about the Trapp Family Singers sometimes swells around an audience like marshmallow cream, but Julie Andrews makes the sticky stuff easy to swallow...
...bitter denunciation of U.S. policy in Viet Nam, professing to see "a rising tide of public shame and private anger at the moral outrages to which our Government has committed our country." That proved to be more than Fellow Academician Thomas Hart Benton, 76, the rugged Missouri muralist, could swallow. He stormed from the rostrum, fired off a telegram promising to resign from the Academy unless it "publicly repudiates your views...
...mellowed. Partly it is because the monarchy has long since overcome the shock of the duke's abdication, and partly because of a different moral atmosphere. In the old days, the most adamant member of the royal family was Queen Mary, that staunch Victorian who could never swallow the idea of her son's marrying a divorcee. "My mother's mind was set," wrote the duke of their infrequent later meetings. "No reconciliation . . . she never forgave...
...Garbo clomping around in a tank suit for her first Swedish film (Peter the Tramp, 1922); and durable Claudette Colbert sharing her milk bath with two thirsty black cats (DeMille's Sign of the Cross, 1932) in what must be the only known instance of a striptease accomplished swallow by swallow...