Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, the U.S. has no intention of forcing upon the still fragile South Vietnamese government a coalition that, by including Communists, might well swallow it. Nonetheless, any settlement that emerges from the Paris talks will ultimately have to reflect the harsh reality of the battlefield, and that reality may be the one that now prevails: a standoff. The U.S. cannot expect to get the kind of settlement it would if the enemy had been routed or were in any immediate danger of defeat. Thus, in all likelihood, some provision will eventually have to be made to give the Communists representation...
...course, is no more anxious than Thieu and Ky to accept a coalition that would swallow non-Communist elements. Speaking on CBS-TV's Face the Nation last week, William Bundy warned that an "imposed coalition" giving the Viet Cong key Cabinet posts "would be likely to follow the East European pattern of the simple takeover." He predicted that even with the V.C.'s relatively small popular following?he placed it at 15% to 25%?such a takeover would be almost inevitable. In many rural areas, the guerrilla is treated with great deference?or fear?and many peasants refer...
Having secured their primary goal--the demonstrators should abandon their battle posts and swallow their anarchic threats to burn down the University to save their own skins...
...part of its continuing efforts to bolster the pound, Britain last month imposed a severe tax on all investment income exceeding $7,200. Though Brit ons have grown accustomed to bitter fiscal medicine, that dose has been particularly hard to swallow. Reason: the special one-year measure carries the country's progressive taxation to the point of confiscation, resulting in a tax bite that can, in higher income brackets, amount to more than...
ANTHOLOGY OF CONCRETISAA. Edited by Eugene Wildman. 157 pages. Swallow Press. $2 (paperback...