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Word: swallowable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kalonji's escape was hard to swallow, but the central government had made its point with the people who count-the Belgian diamond operators. Hurriedly, their chief flew to Leopoldville from Brussels, agreed henceforth to hand over the diamond operation's lavish cash benefits to Adoula's treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Exit, King of Diamonds | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

When a baby is at the stage of putting everything that comes to hand into his mouth, and often trying to swallow it, most parents figure that he will soon grow out of it. What far too few parents realize, according to the findings of a Washington research team, is how often this stage of development, natural up to the age of about 18 months, turns into a prolonged and unnatural craving for substances other than food. Nor do the parents of such children realize their own responsibility for the condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hand to Mouth | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

...Saxophone. Mrs. Doehler makes each patient practice swallowing air as many as 500 times before she asks him to make a sound. After that it is a four-step process to the first single syllable: open the mouth to let air in; close the mouth; swallow the air; and, finally, open the mouth and say "Bah!" Some determined patients progress from "Bah!" to full and clearly understandable sentences in two or three weeks. Others take many months. "The time varies," says Mary Doehler, "not only with the individual's determination but also with his family. If the family does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Lost Chords | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...play, wearing brief swimming trunks at a Russian beach resort. There were pictures of the two lolling on a grassy slope, riding a pedal boat, and even one of Nikolayev sniffing poppies. Handouts emphasized the human touch; the releases said that Popovich had christened his booster rocket Lastochka (The Swallow) and that Nikolayev had asked the ground station for the latest soccer scores. It was made known that Nikolayev's fellow cosmonauts, as a gag, slipped a sheet of jokes into his logbook before takeoff; the P.R. men announced that Popovich during his orbits was fondling a little cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Heavenly Twins | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

...refugee European pieds-noirs from Algeria. Since May 1, the new arrivals have swollen Marseille's population from 800,000 to nearly 1,000.000-and the city is beginning to burst at the seams. "The pieds-noirs are like sleeping pills," said one local official. "You can safely swallow only a certain dose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Overdose | 8/17/1962 | See Source »

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