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Word: swallowable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seduction on the Seine. Meanwhile, a tough little Balkan swallow was flitting around Paris, much to Nikita's further dismay. He was Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Premier of Rumania and the first East European satellite Prime Minister to pay an official visit to a NATO country. For the Rumanians, who are defiantly determined to push ahead with full-scale industrialization of their country, the visit was a gesture designed to show Khrushchev that they would neither accept the grocery-store and gas-station role he wants to assign them in Comecon (the Kremlin's Common Market), nor would they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: Flowers, Swallows & Strangers | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...most indomitable anthropomorphic movie hero since Rin Tin Tin. Flipper sings, squeals, dances, tows a disabled rowboat through a choppy sea, finally defeats the villains in single-snouted combat, and nearly dies of a knife wound before surgery pulls him through. Anyone who finds such exploits hard to swallow is either a lot more than twelve years old or just a jaded landlubber who can't appreciate a picture with a porpoise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Boy & His Dolphin | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...says lovin' like something from the oven"), and Jamie's is the voice of the animated Aero-Shave mermaid. They do Northwest Orient's Oriental airlines song, A.T. & T.'s longdistance elegy, and Alka-Seltzer's bel canto promise: "Relief is just a swallow away." One of their super-specialties is, "Look for the spear and get chewing enjoyment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Oratorios for Industry | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...latest contribution to submarine meteorology was made by modified Swallow buoys,* which are 13-inch aluminum spheres ballasted to sink until they reach water of a selected density. Crammed with apparatus that reports its observations with sonic pings, the buoys can be followed accurately through the depths. They can communicate with each other and measure their distance apart; they can be instructed by a coded sonic signal and told when to drop ballast, rise to the surface, and call by radio for pickup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanology: Underwater Waves Make Underwater Weather | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...Originally invented by British Oceanographer John C. Swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanology: Underwater Waves Make Underwater Weather | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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