Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lightning struck, no thunder rumbled and the earth didn't swallow up the Soldiers Field pitcher's mound. Except for a momentary dazzle, the sky refused to fall Even the second game went on as scheduled...
...full and only half done. I got up, walked around and came back. For the next half hour I choked down pizza and just barely made it in under the deadline. I got the last piece in my mouth with 45 seconds to go and just managed to swallow before time ran out I couldn't sleep on my stomach that night...
...wholly swallow the "new ideas" message that Hart has promulgated. We do not find it significant that he is eight years younger than the hardly senile Mondale nor do we wish to participate in a generational political war with our parents and grandparents...
Europeans may find it hard to swallow, but an American newcomer whose name kept slipping out of the mind as the season began (Jim Johnson? Bill Jones?) won the most dramatic event of the Winter gambols, and all three women's race winners were known only to journalists who traveled the World Cup circuit. Armstrong was obscure, but so was Paoletta Magoni, 19, an Italian who won the slalom when half the women entered fell or missed gates in a thick fog. And Ursula Konzett, a 24-year-old Liechtensteiner, took the bronze. The only known quantity here...
...Brown Deer, Wis. "We should be able to adapt more quickly to changes than the big boys can." Some regional banks are trying to fight off possible takeovers by large institutions by merging with other banks. The goal is to become so large that firms like Citicorp cannot easily swallow them up. Mergers also reduce overhead costs by combining such expensive operations as data processing and advertising...