Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barton case revelations were clearly too much for many a confirmed segregationist to swallow. State Representative Philip Bryant damned the commission as a "private Gestapo." The influential Jackson State Times asked editorially: "Has the State Sovereignty Commission developed into a secret police organization? What right has the commission to maintain files on any Mississippian?" Suddenly aware that what could happen to Barton could happen to them, more and more Mississippians seemed to be agreeing with I. H. Howell, editor of the Batesville Panolian. "When they organized the Sovereignty Commission,", he said, "I had no kick. But when they start having...
...thought that the year of the Eichmann trial will bring humiliation." But, added the writer, "no one can deny that what Eichmann did took place in Germany and was done under a system that was created by Germans and was applauded for a long time . . . We must swallow the great bitterness...
Kenya's 65,000 white inhabitants, already bitter over Britain's repeated concessions to the colony's black nationalists, had more to swallow last week. They had accepted an increased political role for the Africans in the hopes that moderates would come to power and learn gradually the art of governing. But after eight years in prison and exile, extremist Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the organizer of the Mau Mau terror, proved himself once again the most powerful man in Kenya...
...musteline family (mink, marten, mongoose, badger, weasel, skunk), the otter is essentially "a big water weasel"-most northern breeds reach the size of a spaniel, but some in South America grow as big as a seal. He looks like a giant, furry snail. He swims as a swallow flies, all liquid grace. He runs like something squeezed out of a tube, and whenever he sits down he looks like a six-year-old girl in her mother's fur coat-in some species his hide is so loose that it hangs down in folds and even spreads...
...1940s Jenkins was in a position to swallow an entire $5,000,000 issue of bonds by the Mexican government's holding corporation, Nacíonal Financiera, without apparent strain. When a projected four-lane highway from Mexico City to Querétaro lagged for lack of funds, Jenkins lent the contractors $25.6 million to finish the job, while at the same time offering the government $80 million to help finance a new superhighway from Puebla to Mexico City. Among his reported holdings today: the Bank of Commerce, textile mills, cement plants, an automobile assembly plant, finance companies...