Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They will help the Fascists to remain in control of the press, the associations, the assembles, the trade unions and local and central government. Italian democrats who come to the fore from the underground will have to swallow a more or less disagreed by product of the Fascist dictatorship and it they do not do the swallowing with suffices good grace they will go to jail waving large flags emblazoned with President Roosevelt's famous "four freedoms everywhere in the world...
Dreamer. In Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital attendants did what they could for Private Patrick Pisula, who had imitated "the man in the circus" at a bar, taken a couple of bites out of a glass, tried hard to swallow a knife...
More than 2,000 years ago in feudal China, the powerful state of Ts'in dominated six weaker kingdoms. Ts'in conceived the principle of lien-heng, and moved to swallow up its neighbors. The weaker kingdoms gave only lip service to their pledges of ho-tsung, failed to band themselves together for mutual protection. One by one they were attacked and destroyed by the kingdom...
...Times's drama department, where he acquired an unsmiling assistant named George S. Kaufman. When Kaufman eventually satirized him as the waspish subject of The Man Who Came to Dinner, Woollcott declared: "The thing's a terrible insult and I've decided to swallow...
...coin a phrase) too much with us. It isn't that the playwrights don't realize what this war means. It is simply that its meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff of tragedy is rapidly becoming as easy to swallow as water. And even though it might look like gin to the public, no discerning critic can get drunk on water. Anderson et ilk seem to insist on taking the short cut to universality, and it invariably leads them to brutality...