Word: swallowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next day proved to be equally eventful. After playing tackle football in the morning, seven of us drove to a toga party sponsored by Todd and Brian's fraternity chapter at Penn State. The party featured live goldfish to swallow, and brothers passing around "Gold Bond," a powder which both guys and girls rub on their crotches to obtain a tingling feeling. (Unfortunately, refusing to try it, I can't verify the experience...
...When you're accepting a job that pays in the low 30 [thousands], your friends are signing with consulting companies, and they will get signing bonuses that are more than your first five paychecks," said Josh Gibson, a PMI finalist. "You have to swallow hard, and this makes that swallowing go down easier...
...fact, he wanted to swallow up Russia, Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic countries to augment lebensraum: Germany's vital space. But then why did he launch his destructive war against London? Why did he declare war against the U.S.? Solely to please his Japanese ally? Why did he mandate a policy of cruelty in the Soviet territories occupied by his armies, when certain segments of the population there were ready to greet them with flowers? And finally, why did he invest so much energy in his hatred of Jews? Why did the night trains that took them to their death...
...proposed deal, but they're under a lot of pressure to make a deal," says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "So they'll be hoping to get concessions in the last rounds of talks to make it easier to sell their constituencies the parts that are hard to swallow." The real test, though, will be selling the compromise to communities that have been at war for three decades: Whatever agreement the politicians reach by Thursday will be put to the vote in a referendum late...
...only thing left at that point was to say "uncle" and swallow hard...