Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nearly all week, half of the 29 babies in the nursery of Binghamton (N.Y.) General Hospital had been finicky at feeding time. Some gagged on their bottled formula and tried not to swallow it, while a few who swallowed it promptly vomited. The nurses became edgy and puzzled, but were not at first alarmed...
...salty formula. One of these was Lisa Marie Bealo, whose photographer father reported: "We brought the baby home with a quart of formula. She wouldn't take it. She gagged and made a gurgling noise. She was supposed to have four ounces, but we managed to make her swallow only an ounce. She drank water though. We took her back to the hospital." A day and a half later, she died...
...same was true of another cultural stalwart of the Party, John Dos Passos. For all his proletarian sympathies, Dos Passos never found any form of collectivism congenial. He was never able to shake off the feeling that the Party was using him, never able to swallow the Party's slogans and the doctrine of two truths (one for the elite, one for the masses), and found it especially hard to stomach the Party's leadership. Like so many other writers, Dos Passos wavered a long time before he finally broke with the Party; but his break could have been predicted...
...counter the wildly gyrating world cocoa market. Since World War II, as cocoa prices have ranged from 8? to 74? a pound, Hershey's nickel bar has varied in weight between a full ounce and seven-eighths of an ounce, and company executives have learned to swallow such gibes as "Hershey is packaging a nice razor blade now." Recently, when cocoa prices tumbled below 30?, the bar was raised back to a full ounce. Hershey jiggers with weight instead of price because its nickel bars have always vastly outsold its dime bars; they also outsell any competing nickel candy...
...cries of "monopoly" aroused by the attempt of Britain's mighty Imperial Chemical Industries to swallow fibermaking Courtaulds Ltd. (TIME, Jan. 26), the loudest have come from mild-mannered Avison Wormald, 49, managing director of Fisons Ltd. another multimillion-dollar British chemical company. A onetime boarding school teacher who sparked Fisons to much-needed modernization and expansion. Wormald accused I.C.I, of wanting "to obtain complete control of the manmade fiber industry in this country in order to participate in a European fibers cartel," predicted that if the merger went through, "every important chemical company in Britain will ultimately succumb...