Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians, violating their pledge to help reunify Germany and hold democratic elections, made trouble in Berlin from the start, finally brought all road, barge and rail traffic to a halt in the summer of 1948. A remarkable, eleven-month Allied airlift broke the blockade-but strengthened Soviet determination to swallow Berlin, which had become a "bone in the Soviet throat." In 1958 Khrushchev demanded that the West remove its 11,000 troops, permit Berlin to become a "free city." (Moscow, of course, was to have a loud, obstructive voice in supervising the new neutrality.) But Ike warned that interference...
...stupid like Meany"), Hoffa threw down a challenge. Either he would be taken back on his own terms within 18 months or he would form his own federation. Few who heard Hoffa doubted his determination; he had already defied the U.S. Government and forced Jack Kennedy to swallow a campaign cry ("I am not satisfied when I see men like Jimmy Hoffa still free"). In Miami, Hoffa had gathered all the power he needed to carry out his threat. If he did, it would surely touch off one of the worst labor struggles in U.S. history...
Almost unknown in the world of scholarship, Gollwitzer was emerging as a man after Neutralist Barth's own heart, whether or not Basel's nervous municipal authorities, who have the final say, decide to swallow their unease. "Gollwitzer," said one Barthian, "is not out to support those who would like to sweeten their political coffee with the sugar of Western Christian culture...
...Swallow the Pits. On some occasions. All Souls elects distinguished Fellows from outside, such as T. E. Lawrence, who wrote most of his Seven Pillars of Wisdom under All Souls' auspices. But most Fellows are "straight gate" entrants, culled from Oxford's most brilliant new graduates. Each year only one or two pass muster, and in some years, none do. Each candidate submits two papers on his specialty, two more on such matters as politics and literature, a translation paper, and another on a one-word topic such as faith or loyalty...
...with big plans donned top hat and swallow-tailed coat and, surrounded by an escort of sword-bearing Indian guards, called at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, a shade under 7 ft. tall in his topper (6 ft. 8 in. without it), could hardly have picked a more propitious moment to meet with Indian officials: the U.S. was about to offer $1 billion for basic development projects over the next two years if the other members of the "Aid to India Club," Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan, matched the contribution...