Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...among the first to congratulate the artist on a magnificent portrait. Its stark drabness makes one swallow and look again; Oswald's searching eyes reveal the madman he really was. Moreover, it is interesting to speculate on the meaning of the stained wall behind...
Iron poisoning used to be a relative rarity. Old-fashioned iron tonics went out of style in the U.S. long ago, and even when they were around, no child would take more than a swallow of the vile-tasting stuff. But now doctors have learned to use iron tablets in the treatment and prevention of one common form of anemia, especially in pregnant women. And to make them easy to take, the tablets are usually chocolate-or sugar-coated and are brightly colored. They look and taste so much like candy that iron poisoning of small children is becoming increasingly...
Only the U.S. seemed interested in helping him hang on. It gave him a few renovated B-26s to help him against the advancing Congolese rebels. Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams spent five days with Tshombe in Leopoldville, left only after the Premier agreed to swallow his pride and ask five selected African nations to send troops. Whether they will remains doubtful...
...Interns is a second dose of the same cheap stuff, and it's a good deal harder to swallow than the first. The director of the hospital is a surly surgeon (Telly Savalas) with a tongue like a scalpel, a man whose idea of administration is to scream insults at interns in the presence of patients. The interns, of course, give him ample cause for complaint. One of them (Michael Callan) spends most of his time taking an extracurricular course in anatomy from a student nurse (Barbara Eden). Another (George Segal) keeps wandering out of the hospital in pursuit...
...mood to swallow a defeat at the hands of the Turks, Greek Cypriot forces many miles away on the northwest coast were already poised to attack the little ten-mile-long Turkish strip of coastal villages around Man-soura (TIME, July 24). The news from Nicosia may have had nothing to do with it, but within hours the Greek Cypriots were hammering away with bazookas, mortars and machine guns. One after another, Mansoura, Alevga and Ayios Theodores fell to Makarios' men. Desperately, the Turkish Cypriots fell back to nearby Kokkina...