Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea of a railroad as small as the Denver & Rio Grande Western (2,500 miles of track) trying to swallow one as big as the Southern Pacific (13,000 miles) conjures up memories of the Little Engine That Could. Yet the Rio Grande has emerged as the front runner in a heated competition to acquire Southern Pacific...
...watch for red-tag sales at the PX. "We used to say, 'Come to Europe and broaden your horizons,' " says Major Dennis Pinkham, a public-affairs officer at European Command. "Now that word is out that things are tough, that's kind of a bitter pill to swallow." With many economists predicting even harder times ahead for the shrunken dollar, the pill is most easily washed down with cut-rate beer in the barracks...
There are times when history fails Bertolucci, imposing on his story Pu Yi's conscious collaboration with the Japanese -- a great black hole, morally and politically obscure, that threatens to swallow up the movie. Yet the director's eye remains preternaturally alert. He almost redeems the film's long middle passage with a scene showing the Emperor crooning Am I Blue? for his courtiers in exile. And the film's concluding sequence, so clear, so inevitable, should not be spoiled by discussion. Very simply, Bertolucci has found an elegance of design and execution that few of his contemporaries could even...
...anyone who watched a humbled Reagan introduce him to the country last week can't believe that the president was happy with the nomination. Battered, bruised and beaten by the Bork and Ginsburg fiascos, the Administration's right-flank--which, strangely enough, includes the President--has been forced to swallow its ideological pride and promise to support for the Court a nominee with whom they clearly are not enamored...
...glut of recent advertising campaigns touts the benefits of "real food," but nutritionists find many of them difficult to swallow...