Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expects to follow each mobile image. Railroad tracks cross and intertwine, creating squares and patterns and coils; wheels roll and tumble; all to the tune of Kentucky bluegrass fiddling. Another short, by Canadian Paul Driessen, features little and not-so-little green monsters, fishes, and manipulative humans--the creatures swallow each other in an endless progression of gulps and burps. Perhaps Driessen suffers from an underlying paranoia--there's always something bigger out there waiting, waiting...
...every morning of exams all plagued with various ailments. Lots of people have theories on how to make yourself sick enough to get out of a final: eat a lot of aspirin and drink a Coke; eat spoiled mayonnaise; polish off a quart of Charles River water; swallow chunks of chewing tobacco; say you're hearing voices (how can they tell?). One guy had his roomate smash his finger with a hammer. "It seemed like a good idea at the time," he says...
...only bitter pills the racquetemen had to swallow came when Ted Humphreville ended up on the short side of a 3-2 squeaker and an ailing Scott Mead was mowed in three games...
...grinding schedule that included a 24-20 win over nationally ranked Michigan, the Flying Dutchmen, in the words of Tom Bixby, "wanted someone to beat on." The Crimson proved handy whipping boys but after their two convincing wins the 6-6 loss was not too bitter a pill to swallow...
...Kennedy assassination on American politics in the 1960s and '70s is difficult to assess. Canfield and Weberman claim that things would have been very different had Kennedy lived: he would have kept us out of Vietnam, secured detente earlier, and inaugurated massive social welfare measures. This is difficult to swallow; the legislation of the Kennedy administration does not suggest real social reform, and while JFK might not have defended the American empire in Vietnam, there is no reason to suppose he had given up his Cold War policies and would not have defended it elsewhere. But the assassination...