Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swallow and relish the spiciness and occasional acidity of your articles even when my native city and its pet orchestra are involved. However, I cannot excuse omission in detailed account of the Duluth Symphony Orchestra [TIME, Nov. 9] of the name of its conductor from its infancy through its tenth anniversary last spring, Paul Lemay...
...temple, and everything else vanished from my sight, leaving no trace whatsoever, and in their stead I saw a limitless, infinite, effulgent, Ocean of Consciousness. As far as the eye could see, the shining billows were madly rushing at me from all sides with a terrific noise, to swallow me up! I was panting for breath. I was caught in the rush and collapsed, unconscious...
...kind of fourth dimension among cuckoo problems, that is still controversial. The Third Method is used when a cuckoo encounters a nest with a very small or tortuous entrance. Unable to squat or cling, the cuckoo flutters to the ground, lays an egg, is thought by some to swallow it, then poke her long bill and neck into the nest opening, and regurgitate...
...dawn twelve of Bock's tanks climbed the hillock toward the swallow's nest of trenches and light fortifications where Kochetkov and his men lay. The Guardsmen had only rifles and hand grenades. Kochetkov was wounded. His Guardsmen spoke briefly to him, and he to them. Four of them fastened grenades to their thick leather belts. Each of the four chose a tank, ran down the hill, and dived headlong. Eight tanks were left. Six of the eight tanks turned and retreated. The two others crawled on toward the Guardsmen's nest. By then only Kochetkov...
...Kempner believes that some Philadelphia Germans still listen to Nazi shortwave broadcasts, but they "no longer swallow" Goebbels whole. Last week he declared: "They now say: 'We heard a German tell us it was not true...