Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in California, Carlson could not forget the urgent medical needs of the Congo. As he told one colleague over lunch: "If you could only see, you wouldn't be able to swallow your sandwich." He remained in private practice nonetheless; he owned a $12,000 home near Redondo Beach, was earning $12,-000 a year. But it palled, and finally he told a radiologist friend: "I'm going back. I can't stand doing hernias and hemorrhoids any more." Some Exotica. Signing on as medical missionaries for $3,230 a year, the Carlsons arrived at Wasolo...
...other Western nations are washing their hands of Indonesia's erratic strongman, Sukarno, the alliance is clearly a case of economic necessity rather than natural affinity. Both countries have been hurt by the disruption of their once strong economic ties, and both have had to swallow national pride in an attempt to mend them...
...monsters of history acquire the grandeur of history's stage. An evil genie cannot be reduced to, or explained by, the bottle from which it came. Anouilh's Robespierre lacks size. And if men are not all black and white, it is even more difficult to swallow Anouilh's misanthropic contention that they are all black and black, however wittily or trenchantly phrased...
...supplies were running out, and the few remaining scraps were being black-marketed at many times their normal worth. Rebel savages, hopped up by dope and voodoo spells, pillaged the city almost unchecked. And from the surrounding rebel countryside came tales of kangaroo courts that forced their victims to swallow gasoline, then sliced them open and ignited them...
...there has never been a Goldwater in Pennsylvania before. Even if Scott runs ahead of the national ticket by 500,000 votes, as expected, the Johnson margin may swallow him. "Belive in Geneieve" or not, the people may trade "Great Scott" in for her next week in one of the country's closest races...