Word: swallowable
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...grimaced, he swallowed, he hesitated--and then, glumly, reluctantly, he took Arafat by the hand. Here he was making history, yet he could not simply play the euphoric part that the TV cameras were assigning him. He was, it seemed, performing a difficult but necessary chore. Typically, he made no effort to make his feelings appear anything other than the conflicted jumble they undoubtedly were. "Of all the hands in the world, it was not the hand I wanted or even dreamed of touching," he said, attesting to the fact that to achieve peace, one must sometimes swallow hard. There...
Being passed over is never easy to swallow...
...rejection was particularly hard to swallow considering that last year three Ivy League teams were selected, including Ivy runner-up Harvard. UMass knocked the Crimson out of the tourney in the first round...
...exhibit-goers tried to suck out of his paintings all they could, often standing before each one for minutes at a time, as if to swallow it whole and take it with them to ward off their fears of being alone. For, strangely, in his bleakrless came a certain comfort; seeing those 59 pictures together with hundreds of people made his solitude communal. And knowing that we were not as lonely as those in his pictures also gave a certain comfort...
...hard to fathom and even harder to swallow...