Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservatory where he hoped to study, he is forced to work at a low job tickling the ivories in a busy beanery. The servant rises as the master falls: she goes to college and prepares to be a teacher. When they meet again, he is forced to swallow his pride and dissemble his heartburn. With humble irony he asks himself: "Dare a poor blind honky-tonk pianist aspire to marry a beautiful college girl...
...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...certain that A.I.D. has never been so unpopular. When the Congress refused to swallow the President's request for long-term authority to borrow from the Treasury two years ago, it was just beginning to bend a sympathetic ear to Otto Passman's beefy hostility to the entire program. Last year Capitol Hill celebrated Mr. Passman's eighth year as chairman of the House subcommittee by cutting the Administration's request from $4.95 billion to $3.93 billion. Jealous of their prerogative of scrutinizing aid funds, both House and Senate remained deeply suspicious about the President's intention to transform...
Tchin-Tchin is a cheery drink-up expression, but all the hero and heroine of this play have to swallow is the lees of abandonment by their mutually unfaithful spouses. As the pair of wistful rejects, Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn perform with sorcery...
...levies, and some wage earners to get away without paying any income tax at all. But, in practice, tax reform runs into formidable political obstacles: taxpayers who benefit from special provisions want to hold on to them. Mills is doubtless right in believing that the taxpayers will refuse to swallow the sulphur of reform unless it is mixed with the molasses of rate reduction-and even then there will be some bitter faces...