Word: swallowable
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...plight of farmers like Escher makes it unlikely that Congress will swallow the Administration's cutbacks in aid without major changes. In the short run, the sweeping policy reforms would turn farming into an even riskier business and further reduce farm income. But the bill's defenders insist that increased competition would make U.S. agriculture healthier over the long haul. Some new approach certainly seems worth trying, since the expensive policies of the past have not solved farming's woes. Says Agriculture Secretary Block: "I am encouraged that there is a majority that supports the need for a dramatic change...
...credit, James never wrote down to his periodical readers, even though he knew they included "that great majority of people who prefer to swallow their literature without tasting." Instead, he aggressively savored books in print, waging a constant campaign on behalf of his conviction that the novel is "the most magnificent form of art." James was not entirely alone in this belief. But unlike his contemporary critics and champions of fiction, he refused to lay down rules and precepts about what constitutes good novels: "The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation...
...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 fac-filled discussion of scientific progress in the eighteenth century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...release of Anatoly Koryagin, a Soviet psychiatrist, who has been sentenced to 12 years in fail and internal exile for publicly criticizing the political use of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. He has been officially stripped of his psychiatric degree, physically beaten, and is now unable to chew or swallow food as a result of a hunger strike which he initiated in January of 1983 protesting his arrest...
...reform or any kind of tax bill is unlikely to succeed unless the President puts all the force of his personality and office behind it." Democrats also insisted that if Reagan expects to get much in the way of either tax reform or spending cuts, he will have to swallow a revenue increase through tax increases. Said Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee: "This revenue-neutral business is pure fantasy...