Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tiger coach who predicted a one-two Princeton finish, and the Eli coach who figuared on at least two of the top four finishers wearing blue, there were some bitter words to swallow. For Harvard there was only the sweet taste of victory, all the sweeter because it was unexpected...
...experts also believe that the pricing system will have to be made more responsive to supply and demand. However, the Polish workers have resisted that reform ever since 1970. Would Polish workers accept such policies? Some opposition figures, like Dissident Leader Jacek Kuron, respond that the workers will indeed swallow bitter economic medicine-if their sacrifices are rewarded by a genuine liberalization of the political system...
...says. The Planning Board might turn thumbs down on the new plans-but they seemed happy with news of the compromise at an informal meeting last week. Or, it might turn out after all these years that two feet under Parcel 1B there is a gigantic marsh ready to swallow any development...
...grade that has to come up at the end," she adds. "I don't want to paint a rosy picture of myself, though," she laughs. "I'm an overachiever, and if I got a C in college I would have had a heart attack. B's were hard to swallow, and I didn't get many. But the teachers who didn't give me an A, and who talked with me, I learned from...
These three-inch cylinders are implanted hi a heifer's stomach to at- tract bits of metal that the animal might swallow while eating; the magnet thereby protects the critter's heart and lungs from being punctured. When those same magnets are taped, with positive and negative poles together, on a car's fuel line, they slightly heat the gas so that the engine burns more vapor. Result: four to six miles more on a gallon of gas. At least that is the claim of George Goiri, 48, an Ontario, Ore., storekeeper, who began attaching magnets...