Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many forms of art, Jarrell finds, too many people are willing to swallow spoon-fed taste: "A great many people are perfectly willing to sit on a porcupine, if you first exhibit it at the Museum of Modern Art and say it is a chair. In fact there is nothing that somebody won't buy and sit in, if you tell him it's a chair: the great new art form of our age, the one that will take anything we put in it, is the chair...
...Saar's steel, the Röchlings hold the key to the basin's rich economy, the deciding weight in the industrial balance of power between France and Germany. Both in 1919 and 1946, France took over the Röchling empire in an effort to swallow the Saar. Just 20 months ago Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay promised the French Senate, "The Röchlings will never return to the Saar." But six months after he spoke, the German-speaking Saarlanders voted down a French attempt to link their economies permanently...
...getting behind again and haven't any meat on our bones. We're studying a price increase carefully and see it coming-it has to come." Thus Bethlehem Steel's Eugene G. Grace broke the news last week that the U.S. would probably have to swallow another general steel price rise. Noting that Bethlehem Steel's nine-month net earnings tumbled (from $122.6 million to $99.6 million) along with those of other companies, because of the steel strike, Chairman Grace said that spiraling costs for scrap, ore and transportation had more than gobbled...
...tough garrison commander and some soldiers still loyal to longtime (1933-48) Dictator Tiburcio ("Bucho") Carias, whose Nationalist Party also opposes Lozano. Ten were killed. Lesser violence influenced the vote in other places. Voters in one village reported that police forced them at gunpoint to chew up and swallow their Liberal ballots, then forced them to vote for the government's National Union Party (P.U.N...
Tito's remark that Yugoslavia would have "to swallow" attacks from the Soviet right wing was interpreted as meaning that any show of aggressive independence at this point would merely help the rightists. After the surprise departure last week, a Belgrade spokesman said that Tito had gone to Yalta to "strengthen Khrushchev's hand." But if Khrushchev is in trouble with his own party, how does Tito's presence at Yalta help him? There were no firm answers to this question last week, but hints dropped through Communist channels over the past few months indicated how Tito...