Word: swallowable
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...election day, one of Burke's precinct captains greeted voters in Polish, but the final word of his lecture was clear in any language: "Epton." Urging people to vote Republican "is a big nut to swallow," the precinct worker explained, "but I've lived in this neighborhood 76 years, and we don't want it to change." Race was clearly the overriding concern. "The whites should be with the whites and the blacks with the blacks," said another precinct captain...
...fact his incessant litany of commercials stems from the same impulse that dares Stephen Spielberg to fill his movies with Reese's Pieces and beer jingles. The device embeds the book or the movie firmly into the consciousness of its audience; the labels make everything familiar, and we placidly swallow it as the real thing...
...smuggler's most foolhardy practice is called body packing: they swallow cocaine-filled rubber packets, usually made of fingers snipped from surgical gloves. The carriers, known as mules, gulp down the packets in Colombia with the intention of excreting them in the U.S. The danger to the mule is that a packet may rupture, causing a massive drug overdose. The technique is becoming either safer or less popular. Since late 1980, the Dade County coroner has not come across any body-packing fatalities, after an earlier spate of such deaths. Yet during the past year at Kennedy International Airport...
...Mitterranomics fails, the French swallow bitter medicine...
...London production of 'Evita by night and rehearsed her Marilyn! lines during the day. In between, the British actress frantically gobbled French fries to put on 14 Ibs. and give her 110-lb. frame a little Monroevian oomph. The result: the critics loved her, though they could not swallow the play. Said one: "Yet one more leaden exercise in necrophiliac hagiography." -By E. Graydon Carter