Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although this formula must still filter through House & Senate, it was clear that the public would be able to swallow the final mixture with an easy gulp. In a pre-election year, the Ways & Means Committee was unwilling to find ways & means to raise the $10.5 billion in new taxes recommended by the Treasury, was eager to settle for around $2 billion. And the Administration, by fumbling the job of showing why tax increases are necessary, had given Congress an unusually good excuse for preferring politics to economics...
Thus his answer to the unstated probrlem was too unpalatable for Congress to swallow. He did not demonstrate that this was the best possible solution-and not politics...
Airmen in Britain, main base of the air offensive against Germany, had to swallow a bitter pill. The war was not being fought their way. They were not, after all, waging the all-out campaign which they looked forward to a few months ago. Instead of fighting for victory from the air, they were fighting toward further victory by the ground armies...
Offering his discovery to U.S. poultry-men, Lorenz had a word of warning: if the consumer should swallow an unconsumed hormone pellet with his chicken, it might make him sick. To avoid this, he suggested that the pellets be implanted in a part not usually eaten, i.e., the neck...
Soldiers, like all Americans, read news and editorials and either swallow them whole or discredit them entirely, depending upon what newspaper or magazine they had. I'm talking about 95% of soldiers. But those who read TIME neither swallow nor discredit immediately what they read...