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...even prison terms for offending corporate and union officials. For political reasons, the Prime Minister refused to use the word controls; he labeled his plan an "attack on inflation." But he left little doubt that it is a strict economic policy. Canadians, warned Trudeau, "are going to have to swallow some strong medicine...
Rich Doherty--Sox in Six. I've been raised on Big Yaz bread and Fenway Franks and I couldn't swallow my Sox losing the Series...
...things are just bad form," but there aren't any other allusions to graceless forms on the page, so upi might as well supply the rest yourself. For example, a lot of the woman's poems are some of those things you should shun. They're too easy to swallow, and this has enticed a whole flock of followers who chuck stanzas between their gums without noticing that their form is bad--consuming mediocre poetry is bad form...
Even this minimal suggestion was more than the intransigent Rev. Ian Paisley could swallow. Following Paisley's lead the caucus voted 37 to 1 to reject any power sharing with Catholics on the Cabinet level; Craig was the lone holdout...
Banfield recalls his years here slightly differently. He doesn't remember students being rude to him, and says there was no "hostile disagreement." But, he says, "Nobody was ever indifferent to me at Harvard Everything I said was an anathema to some, bitter pills to swallow--but I never checked to see if anybody ever swallowed them...