Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glory of God, and which older Presbyterians regard as near-idolatry and even younger ones regard as play-acting-the bishop in his robes has long been one of the most potent symbols. The ordinary Scot will find it surprisingly difficult to get himself, let alone his grandfather, to swallow this." Equally hard to choke down is the committee's stipulation that the Scots' bishops be consecrated initially by a laying on of hands by Anglican bishops...
Last week Reno explained. "I swallow one little white tranquilizer pill a half hour before each game. Occasionally, if things get a little tense, I'll take the top off my bottle and take another...
Apologies & Effigies. Hurt and shaken, Barbara Smith managed to swallow her pride. "The ultimate success of integration at the university," she said, "is much more important than my appearance in the opera." With that Barbara kept mum -and university officials were ordered to do the same. But last week a series of events proved that integration had achieved a far greater measure of success than Barbara-or anyone else-had realized. Seldom had the university been the center of such a storm of indignation...
...civil-service inspector is on the way to investigate its lace-curtain vices. The Schwetzingen Festival (near Heidelberg) gave Composer Egk a handsome, cartoon-style production (by noted Stage Director Gunther Rennert), with the opera's townspeople outlandishly garbed in a mid-19th century assortment of green swallow-tailed coats, crimson velvet caps and propeller-sized bow ties. As the townspeople press money and the favors of their womenfolk on the "inspector"-in the end, of course, he turns out to be merely an amiable, drink-swilling traveler -Composer Egk accompanies them with a staccato, dissonant score pricked...
...refusals made the Nasser statement hard for Britain, France-and even the U.S.-to swallow, since Western diplomacy had been bent on getting Nasser's signature on a treaty of some sort (see FOREIGN NEWS). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge announced in the U.N. Security Council that the U.S.'s "de facto acquiescence" was "provisional," depending on how the declaration "is carried out in practice." But as a U.N. diplomat put it in a corridor aside: "Since the U.S. doesn't want war and Britain and France don't want economic sanctions, the only thing...