Word: swallowable
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Overtaxed, overregulated, and fed up with the legislative extravagances of the most liberal state in the nation, Massachusetts voters refused to swallow one more social experiment...
...want to sit out here and pull strings. But if the party picks a new chairman, we would hope for somebody who is more than just acceptable to Reagan. I don't know why it's always the conservatives who are supposed to swallow hard and compromise in the interest of party unity. Maybe it's time for [New York's liberal Republican Senator Jacob] Javits to swallow hard...
Your issue gave us a lot of corn pone to swallow...
Kirbo is very much aware of the recurring complaint that Carter cannot keep his mouth shut, and, in fact, has urged the candidate to swallow some of his windy and revealing answers. But, he said with some resignation and humor, "That's Jimmy. He'll tell everything. He's come a long way being open. It may be political poison nationally, but it worked in Georgia." Stoic and cheerful as he sounded, Kirbo was a bit depressed, and back in Georgia he showed it-which was surprising...
...South Boston High, he still knows where that teacher comes from and how she probably fits into the city's network of cronyism and nepotism, how her mother may hold a feather-bedded job in the School Department downtown, her husband on the Boston police force may swallow his pride and true opinions to protect black children, and how her brother-in-law might be assuring audiences in South Boston that he will never let those people take over our little city as he runs for the ninth congressional district seat (which, by an ironic districting fluke, contains parts...