Word: swallowable
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They discover an old house in the Paris suburbs and go there separately. The strange edifice envelops them for a time, but the only tangible proof of their visits is the piece of hard candy they find in their mouths. When the girls swallow the candy later it plunges them, like one of Alice's Wonderland potions, back into their experiences in the house...
...Harvard cross-country team had to swallow its third defeat of the young season yesterday afternoon in New York City's Van Cortlandt Park, bowing to Penn and Columbia by scores of 20-43 and 22-36 respectively...
Despite such skepticism, some attempt to fund more public jobs seems certain. The ambitious proposals amount to a spoonful of sugar to make the bitter medicine of big budget cuts easier to swallow. Congressmen, reasons George Washington University's Sar Levitan, a manpower expert, would be less reluctant to make large and politically sensitive spending cuts in some areas if they could also create jobs for constituents...
...accommodate the coercive states of the future. One is a willingness to accept authority and a capacity for national identity. "Survival," says Heilbroner "must reckon with the need for--perhaps the ultimate reliance on--welcomed heirarchies of power and strongly felt bonds of peoplehood." This argument is difficult to swallow; its basis is rooted in child psychology and I don't think one can draw such grandiose extensions into politics. One certainly can't claim that it is "more courageous and less pietistic," as Heilbroner does, to advocate the following...
...amusing and educational experience. I went down to the office--a fly by night operation for sure--a couple of afternoons that week after having committed to memory the sales pitch, a bunch of patronizing crap that was hard to swallow. But what counted was that I would be gainfully employed, and eligible for parole after three months in a hell on earth existence at home, or so I thought...