Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were hardly the stuff of dreams. But many young Easterners, nostalgic for the good life they had known before the horrors of the Civil War, were seduced to join up for what would prove banal, backbreaking labor. The pay for three months: $75 and all the beans one could swallow. On the drive, there were few shootouts with warpath tribes. Most drovers were happy to pay the 50?-per-head surcharge demanded by the Choctaw tribal council for crossing their land...
...real action is in the roomfuls of coin-operated electronic games designed to divert, amuse and swallow the quarters of customers waiting for their pizzas to cook. Even more entertainment is provided, free of charge, by troupes of singing, talking, joke-telling robots dressed up to resemble Muppet-like characters...
...area and waiting for their new home or apartment to become vacant. One particularly grateful renter is former Homeowner Mae Rose Owens of Winter Park, Fla. She was able to save her household possessions by hastily storing them in a local miniwarehouse after a giant sinkhole began to swallow up her house and a big chunk of the neighborhood...
...other side of the Hill, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee also cut about $11 billion from social spending. But even this Republican-dominated committee could not swallow the idea of block grants. Though Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah strongly favored Reagan's approach, Republican Moderates Robert Stafford of Vermont and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut wanted to protect important categorical grants for health and education. The President talked with Hatch and Stafford by telephone from Camp David on Sunday to see if an accommodation could be reached. The following night, Hatch, Weicker, Stafford, Budget Director David Stockman, Health...
...time to stop looking at what happened back there," Jeffreys mused recently during a break in his 19-city U.S. tour. "I'm now saying move on, your life is bigger." But there were times, growing up in Brooklyn, that life loomed so large that it threatened to swallow him up. He was a year old in the waning days of World War II, when his father, a sailor, skipped out and never showed up again...