Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tchin-Tchin is a cheery drink-up expression, but all the hero and heroine of this play have to swallow are the lees of abandonment by their mutually unfaithful spouses. As the pair of wistful rejects, Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn perform with sorcery...
...gentleman in business and a pirate with women, to suggest that pi racy is the key to success. Albion is usually represented by an English gentleman who is one of the most delightful creatures the earth has ever seen, in sofar as it is a question of a hurt swallow or a round of golf, but as soon as it is a question of commerce, the mild gentleman may be come a terrible and stubborn clog...
...line," cried a Free Democrat chieftaifi. "Do they think they can negotiate with both of us at the same time?" It was an emotional meeting, but Free Democratic Party Leader Erich Mende quieted things down. He knew that neither Adenauer's C.D.U. nor the Social Democrats could swallow the idea of a coalition. Inevitably, Adenauer and Mende would be drawn together again...
...conception of a United States Senator is not of a young man able to out-smile and out-handshake his opponents, who can swallow intellectual pablum spoon-fed him by a group of professors, only to gilbly regurgitate it for a radio and television audience at optimum listening hours. It is rather of a man, hopefully seasoned and matured by capable, intelligent public service, who seeks high office on the basis of his own merits, his own record, and his own ideas. Ted Kennedy certainly is not such a man. Harry F. Greene '63 Hendrik Hertzberg '65 Peter J. Wallison...
...Gaulle's adversaries fear that direct presidential elections may swallow up most of France's dozen political parties, each of which is already riven by factionalism. The moderate right knows it can never assemble enough voters eventually to elect its favorite, Antoine Pinay, as De Gaulle's successor. The Roman Catholic M.R.P. is torn between its conservative clerical and young progressive wings, and the clericals dread the prospect of a popularly elected President's reopening the issue of state aid to church schools, which for more than 100 years split French politics and villages down...