Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modern and most terrible means, and through the use of the slogan "In protecting the freedom" of the South Vietnamese population, a kind of freedom that the South Vietnamese population has had to throw up and vomit continuously during the last ten years or so without being able to swallow successfully...
...Chinese propagandists claimed. In summer, however, it is no place for combat. Veterans of Japan's 13-year occupation of Manchuria recall the Ussuri River border area as "the worst possible place for a battle for much of the year-so swampy that it could easily swallow up an army." The Chinese side of the Ussuri is heavily forested; timbered hills sweep down to the river swamps for most of its length. Through the forests on the Soviet side runs the easternmost segment of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which links the key Pacific port of Vladivostok with Khabarovsk, more...
...firm gained control of Reliance Insurance, a large multi-line company, and squeezed a $100 million dividend out of its coffers to finance other Leasco operations. Last week Steinberg admitted at Leasco's annual meeting that his takeover appetite has grown so big that he would like to swallow Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., the nation's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $9 billion). Chemical Chairman William S. Renchard has promised to fend off "aggressors" vigorously...
Even modest improvement in severe cases may be lifesaving, Cotzias points out. One patient who for years had been unable to walk or talk, and hardly able to swallow, recovered sufficiently to walk with assistance, to feed himself, and occasionally to speak. This improvement lasted during the year that he spent at Brookhaven. He died in another hospital, from pneumonia caused by getting food in his lungs, after he had been without L-dopa for some time...
...Like most of my generation, I have had to try to swallow Freud, Pavlov, Marx, and Pareto, as well as the more indigestible lumps which are not books, but experience...I think I have kept to the basic belief of my youth in the rightness--do I really wish to put it as righteousness?--of human reason. You may write me down as born in the eighteenth century and yet not too umcomfortable--not at any rate schizophrenic--in the mid-twentieth...