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Word: swallowable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cunning of age," Moore muses. "Make the young man take three steps to your one. Smotin' power, that's what it comes down to. George can still smote, oh yes he can." Moore also knows something about losing weight. Eat all you like, he once suggested, just don't swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Houston, Texas A Slugger and A Dream | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...think [the other runners] stopped thinking of me as a Harvard runner, but as a person who can run even though I don't go to a big track school," Rainey said. "It may have been a little tough for them to swallow, the fact that Harvard runners beat them. But I think we gained some respect after it was over...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Harvard Snags Ninth In Track Tournament | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

...nomination process. At the Department of Energy, five people have rejected offers to serve as the $80,700-a-year Assistant Secretary in charge of nuclear energy. "I'm having trouble persuading people with needed skills to join the Government," complains Energy Secretary James Watkins. "They might swallow the lower pay, but they balk when they learn ethics laws could bar them from returning to their old jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Righteous? | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...tough upset to swallow, but the Crimson will not have much time to think about it. Harvard travels to Brown this afternoon for another key Ivy matchup...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Elis End Netwomen's 43-Game Ivy Streak | 4/22/1989 | See Source »

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