Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tough for the team to swallow this," Kingston said. "It's tough for us to say we are the third-best team in New England when we gave up only two trys in seven games. All of this would have been much easier to accept if we had lost 20-0 instead...
...FINE IF YOU COULD READ LIPS. New Orleans' great flying saucer of a building was less Superdome than Superdrone. The cavernous arena seemed to swallow up the voices of the speakers. On opening night, crusty former Senator Barry Goldwater, seated in the VIP box, was cussing and complaining that no one could hear what was being said. Some delegates actually left the arena to listen to the convention on television. According to a New Orleans official, Ed McNeill, the National Education Association met in the Dome before the Republicans did and offered to split the cost of the sound system...
Still, many find it hard to swallow Counter'sexplanation of what transpired...
...lira tumbled? Worse. Thanks to a ruling issued this month by the European Community's Court of Justice, Italy's lasagna may go limp and its fettuccine flaccid. For a nation that eats its pasta al dente, or firm to the tooth, such news is hard to swallow...
Babbitt's "stand-up campaign" dramatized the fact that while none of us want reduced services or higher taxes, neither do we want high deficits bequeathed to our children. Our desire for a gain-no pain cure has left us looking like a whiny child, unwilling to swallow the bitter, restorative fiscal medicine. We have entrusted the economic health of the nation to Dr. Feelgood and have demonstrated a willingness to forgive deception and punish forthrightness...