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Word: swallowable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find some gristle or a piece of meat you cannot swallow, don't spit it out on your plate . . . Place it on the prongs of your fork, then place it on the rim of your plate. Don't let this embarrass you. It is perfectly correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Be Nonchalant | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...swallow our pride and learn to adopt some very important facets of the Russian educational system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1961 | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...share in the national economy. But particularly population control presents massive problems of its own, Banfield said. "Just what does Kennedy do with those birth control pills? It's one thing for Congress to appropriate money for the pills, but quite another to get the people in India to swallow them...

Author: By Rudolf V. Ganz jr., | Title: U.S. Foreign Aid Doctrine Riddled With Moralizing, Banfield Declares | 11/22/1961 | See Source »

...merger announcement obliged Central President Alfred E. Perlman to swallow a large mouthful of crow and offered Pennsy Chairman James M. Symes (pronounced Sims) a rare kind of satisfaction. The two roads first began to talk merger in 1957, but two years later, just as they were about to settle on terms, Perlman coldly called the whole thing off. Said he: "Before we marry the girl, we want to make sure no other heiress is around that might fall into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Return Engagement | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...most influential Ban-the-Bomber, Philosopher Bertrand Russell, who has been quicker to censure the U.S. than the U.S.S.R. for possessing nuclear arms, stormed out of an hour-long protest meeting with Russian embassy officials. He explained he could take its tea and caviar but could no longer "swallow comments, about the innocence of the Soviet Union; never had there been such innocence in the history of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Two Kinds of Test | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

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