Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Still, many experts find the glut of health-oriented advertisements for real food difficult to swallow. Declares Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer-advocacy group in Washington: "Some of the ads may be honest, but you need a Ph.D. to tell the difference...
Hardest to swallow is the unrelieved bitterness and rage against men expressed throughout the report's pages. Women and Love so resonates with angry voices that the volume fairly vibrates in one's hand. Charges one of Hite's women: "Every man you meet still tries to hump you every way he can. It's about time we humped them back." Blasts another: "Men think they are so mature, but deep down they are such babies. They expect to be catered to. They whine and complain about everything...
...could be that I'm just too cynical to swallow a story about older women falling madly in love with a 15-year-old because he was so kind and ingenous. After all, it is a true story...
...A.M.A. argues that only the medical profession can intelligently guide the training of its own members. But in New York, Axelrod is pushing for implementation of his proposed changes by next July. Thus the medical profession in its reluctance to heal itself may be forced to swallow the bitter pill of imposed reform...
...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the eighteenth century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...