Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left the Atlantic behind and began to cross Africa, Glenn set out to test his reactions to the eerie world of weightlessness. He gobbled some malt tablets and carefully squeezed a tube of applesauce into his mouth. He felt fine. Swallowing was no problem. "It's all positive action. Your tongue forces it back in the throat and you swallow normally. It's all a positive displacement machine all the way through." He shook his head violently to see if the motion would induce space sickness. Nothing happened. "I have had no ill effects at all from zero...
...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...
...real estate empires. The catch was that Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp, Inc. was always barely one gasp ahead of its creditors: by last year the company was staggering under some $100 million in short-term debt, found itself so short of ready cash that Zeckendorf was obliged to swallow his pride and abandon cherished plans to build a $60 million Manhattan luxury hotel named after himself (TIME, Aug. 1, 1960). Last week, after swallowing a bit more of his pride and accepting a much be-stringed bundle of cash from Britain, Zeckendorf seemingly had Webb & Knapp back...
Bagged he gets. He is the national open champion at something called The Challenge, a game of classic simplicity wherein the contestants see who can swallow the greatest quantity of booze before falling over, heels in the air. Dressed in red ties and baseball hats, Gleason and Actor Paul Douglas once got ready for a major league battle, but Gleason said. "Let's fungo a few first." The preliminary rounds were so numerous that the contest never started; both Gleason and Douglas were beaned by the fungoes...
...Toyland has its charms. The March of the Toys is always fun to hear, and even more fun to see performed by brightly colored toys of all sorts and sizes, synchronized in what Disney & Co. call "animotion." Singer Sands, who most of the time is about as hard to swallow as a Vaseline sandwich, suddenly pulls on a fright wig and does a brilliant bughouse turn as a batty old bag who reads tea leaves and such. And Villain Bolger is granted at least one grand line. "Come!" he calls sepulchrally to his comic accomplices. "Let us lurk...