Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something to Swallow. In a cryptic aside to one of his top aides a few weeks ago Tito said: "The Russians are getting difficult again. This time we've got to swallow it." Western observers, to whom the remark leaked, guessed what Tito was talking about: a few carping lines in Moscow's Pravda drawing attention to the fact that trials are still being held for repatriated pro-Stalin Yugoslavs, hundreds of whom Tito is said to have jailed. A later report that cropped up in Warsaw-that the Soviet Central Committee was circulating a letter describing Tito...
...Teacher of Righteousness," who said Allegro on the basis of guess work, was also crucified. Allegro's new book prudently plays down this wild surmise. But together with a vivid account of the discoveries, Allegro gives nonscholarly readers plenty of speculation to chew on, if not necessarily to swallow...
Like an early swallow ushering in a new season, the first Gallup poll of the 1956 presidential campaign last week fixed the starting positions as well as they will ever be fixed. After asking voters across the U.S. which ticket they would now like to see win, Pollster George Gallup announced these results...
...Myths & New Facts. The survivors' testimony dispelled some old myths and produced some curious new facts. A shark is not shy. It does not have to turn on its back to attack. It does not attempt to swallow a man whole, but nips out steak-sized chunks. For some reason, perhaps the sharpness of the teeth, a victim scarcely feels the bite. A naval officer who spent twelve hours in the waters off Guadalcanal remembered feeling "a scratching, tickling sensation" in his left foot. "Slightly startled, I held it up. It was gushing blood. I peered into the water...
Most steelmen also appeared unconcerned. Industry reports put current steel inventories at close to 18 million tons, although it is unevenly distributed. Steelmakers, who have worried about the effects of a big price boost to pay for a wage increase, might well feel that users would swallow the boost more easily with lower stocks on hand. Some small steel companies unaffected by the strike had already raised prices from $6 to $16 a ton; a short breathing spell would help smooth the ground for an industry-wide boost later...