Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Swallow. To a Europe in need of inspiration, the words evoked memories of Charlemagne, France's Due de Sully and his 17th century "Grand Design," and other great "European" statesmen. "The Talleyrand of the 20th century," cried West Berlin's Tagesspiegel, delighted with evidence of Adenauer-style Europe-mindedness from a man once considered to be concerned only with French grandeur. In the U.S., where De Gaulle's soaring prestige had finally won him something close to his longstanding demand for equality with Britain in U.S. counsels, his assurances of France's solidarity with...
Bowles urges the colleges to consider even more radical reforms. He feels that colleges must swallow their pride and "unite in self-denying agreements"-or see the admissions system really break down. Among his ideas: ¶A single "clearing center" to process all applicants and find the right college for the right student from the beginning. Two such centers are already in operation, but they help only those students rejected by colleges of their choice. ¶ A series of cooperative committees formed by big colleges with similar goals and standards, to pick eleventh-graders. This might cut multiple applications from...
...Memphis, after being ordered by his teacher to swallow what he was chewing, Rangel Burks, 7, obliged, was taken to the hospital with a pencil stub in his stomach...
When Neelands resigned in disgust from Capital's board in 1958, he warned that the line had "sought more routes than it could swallow and was working toward a crisis." Now, faced with a $33.8 million mortgage foreclosure on planes and a full-scale CAB investigation, Capital President David H. Baker and his backers on Capital's board have called on Neelands to solve the line's woes...
...majority at the polls, hoped to block him with a post-election coalition. But he would be a hard man to handle. As a Belgian official puts it, "Lumumba is bad for the government either way. If he loses, he will wreck it; if he wins, he will swallow...