Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four chapters that Greer gets into the real meat of her argument--when she takes on the subjects of eugenics, of world populations control and of forced sterility--that her strongest biases emerge. Those who were angered by some of her more provocative claims in earlier passages will not swallow her sweeping claims about the differences between East and West, the crimes of governments, and the absurdity of the overpopulation concept. Despite their militant premises, her conclusions can be challenged but not altogether dismissed...
...eloquent speech a fortnight ago on the dangerous rifts that have come between Jews and blacks. "Such conduct can never be condoned and it must be unequivocally condemned." Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin called on Jackson to repudiate Farrakhan. George McGovern last week asked how Jackson could "swallow a self-evident anti-Semitic bigot and life-threatening bully such as Louis Farrakhan...
...picture in Paris. It was impossible to determine whether the photo was authentic. There are reports that Sakharov has been put under the care of a Soviet doctor who specializes in "artificial nutrition." The treatment is said to involve a technique that is used with patients who cannot swallow because they have throat cancer. Regardless of his health, Sakharov is an increasingly troublesome issue for the Soviets. Summed up his stepson Alexei Semyonov in Washington last week: "Sakharov is dangerous because his inward development as a person has led him to a state of freedom and courage...
...Frankly, I do not know a work of moral fiction that could improve your character, for it has always seemed to your mother and me (admittedly prejudiced but not blind) that your character never needed much improving. I have not known anyone more fairminded, more considerate, more able to swallow disappointment. Not from me did you get these things. Why should I expect to give you something special...
Reagan's advisers are confident not only that Moscow's ploy will fail and the President will be reelected, but that once the Soviets are faced with the reality of another four years of this Administration, they will swallow their pride, along with their words, and get back to the business of trade, diplomacy and arms control...