Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...against their finding it were too great. For the North Pole is a purely theoretical location hovering over immense seas of drifting, heaving ice. To Rawlins, Peary's claim that he made a beeline to the Pole over such terrain in-50° F. temperatures is hard to swallow, particularly since he used his sextant sparingly. On the last leg of his trek, he ordered his only thoroughly trained navigator to stay behind. Peary's recorded speeds of the final march far exceed the rate he had managed previously. Others have noted that the logs Peary presented...
...sure, some of the causes of inflation seem almost beyond government control. European refiners have had to swallow a 17% rise in the cost of Mid dle Eastern and North African oil in the past six months, and some textile mills are paying 40% to 50% more for cotton and wool, partly because purchases by the all-consuming Japanese have shrunk supply. The most volatile commodity of all is the $80 billion in Eurodollars, spilled out of the U.S. by past excessive American spending, that ricochets from country to country, feed ing inflation by swelling the available money supply...
None of these people would have been unhappy if Harvard could only swallow its pride and follow the example of its rival in New Haven. At Yale, all of this nonsense is avoided by assigning each freshman to one of Yale's colleges (their word for Houses) when they first enter the university. At the same time, Yale allows easy transfers between colleges so that students can live with friends they make who happen to have been placed in other Yale colleges...
...Through the mother's eyes we glimpse both the glory of the culture bound by ties of survival and love and its swift, callous destruction by agents who are only understood by the tribe as evil spirits of the night. Bayangumay, who even on the slave-ship wants to swallow her tongue and sings "tomorrow I will cease to be an animal," is the prime source of her daughter's intransigence. The product of a drunken orgy of sailors and their black cargo, Rosalie, born with one blue and one green eye, is trained by her master as a pampered...
...Swallow the bug! That's it, Magruderbugger, now you've become a material witness. Have Dean give you a voucher and get over to Walter Reed post haste. That bug is coming...