Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...zero hour arrives at last. . . . They are ushering me into a small cubicle. ... Six strong pairs of hands holding me down with an iron grip. . . . Then suddenly a flash of green lightning. . . . Numbers being read off, everything being carefully, scientifically, maddeningly checked (God in heaven, I can't swallow, I can't swallow...
Last week 15 newly acquired Shang bronzes went on view in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. One of the cups had a tripod base which seemed to stand on tiptoe, and a lid in the shape of a swallow with outstretched wings and tail (see cut). The ambition to drink from the wings of a flying swallow might well have cost someone a kingdom...
...Family Car. Will the plan save the Navy from what it most dreads and fears-a merger which would eventually swallow it up, air arm and all? The Army's proposal called for a single Secretary of National Defense. Under that kind of setup the Navy foresees "derogation of sea power as a part of the national forces." The fear is well founded. According to such men as General of the Army George C. Marshall, the Air Forces will relegate Navy & Army to a secondary position in any future...
...Copenhagen, the Danish Social Democrats' first postliberation congress drew socialist premiers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, socialist representatives from Belgium, Holland, France. Professor Laski, who has been skimming, swallow-like, from one European socialist conference to another, was also irresistibly attracted...
When the vote was announced, 70% of the delegates were for fusion. But now that he had the profusion majority vote in his pocket, shrewd Pietro Nenni remarked that there was really no hurry about fusion, that Socialists must first make sure that the Communists would not swallow them...