Word: swallowed
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Such a change is long overdue. Medical School students have never been permitted electives until the second term of their fourth year. As a result, students with completely different backgrounds or interests have been forced to swallow identical courses of study. Now, students will be able to dabble in special fields early in their Medical School careers...
...also systematically starved ("The fish soup is bitter and floating with eyes. I swallow the soup, eyes and all"), but he was not allowed to die because his jailers persisted in the hope of extracting a confession from him "so that we may be sure you have learned to respect the Soviet Union." Wynne never gave them that satisfaction, and was finally exchanged for a Soviet spy in British hands. A tale such as his resounds far louder than the hosannas of the Soviets' 50th-anniversary celebrations...
...Bunkie Knudsen cautiously allowed, "only time will tell" if he can reverse Chevrolet's lead. He likes to remember one of the few pieces of advice his father gave him: "In this business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you." Bunkie Knudsen has been mostly running ever since the day in 1927 when his father announced that he could have a new Chevrolet if he would stop by the plant. Bunkie, 14, found the car waiting-in several thousand pieces. "It took me a couple of months...
...told the United Nations that this country would have no objections. That was the first -- and last -- indication that the United States was ready to face up to the give and take of peacemaking. But after Gen. Ky and his cronies squawked loudly to Washington, Goldberg was made to swallow his words...
...generations, Englishmen have liked to down their bitter in the chatty, relaxed atmosphere of the local pub. That is where they swallow more than four-fifths of the 20 gallons per head consumed annually, leaving the home in second rank as a place to drink. But Britain's new stop-and-sniff law, which went into effect Oct. 15, threatens to change all that. It authorizes police to make a suspected tippler pull to the curb and take a "breathalyzer" test-that is, he must blow into a bag in which crystals that change color indicate how much alcohol...