Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patrons of A Shot in the Dark must be prepared to swallow some dialogue with the rugged flavor of vin ordinaire, and the end of the play tends to dribble away. But most of this Gallic murder-comedy is estate-bottled, kept at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature and poured to a farce-connoisseur's taste...
...From Sidecars. Lancashire-born Sir William, who started out as a maker of motorcycle sidecars, founded the Swallow Coachbuilding Co. Ltd. in 1928 to build custom bodies for Standard's chassis, called his car the Standard Swallow (and quickly shortened it to simply the "S.S."). To avoid the onus the Nazis had given to the initials SS, Lyons in 1945 changed the company's name to Jaguar. Production has risen from 250 a week in 1950 to the current clip of about 530, and Jaguar's sales to the U.S. have jumped from...
...legislative action Harvard hoped to promulgate by refusing $250,000 annually in NDEA funds is not forthcoming. The complete indifference of Congress to the issue, even though mighty Harvard thought it important, carried implications about the College's importance that may be hard for some officials and faculty to swallow, although renewed discussion of the NDEA indicates that many are willing to try a bite...
...appalled by the unscientific squalor he finds in the pathology lab, which is one of the principal diagnostic tools in any hospital's kit. He lights a hot fire under March, but the old boy stubbornly refuses to budge. "My face is turning purple trying to swallow you," he rages, "but I will! I'm staying!" And the young man just as stubbornly replies...
...children were using a station wagon and a tent. Neither family fished, but they sailed and hiked. Bird Lover Painter delighted in helping the children discover some wonderful birds-a hoarse raven that flapped over the yellow pines, a broad-tailed hummingbird, a pine siskin, a violet green swallow, bluebirds and chickadees, orioles and woodpeckers...