Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a long, slow swallow of the freshly refilled wine glass. His mood was not bitter; it was, in fact, quite friendly, as though he were telling his tale to a group of trusted friends. The camera had been put away, and everyone was thinking, not unsympathetically, that "here was a neat story for the folks back home...
...real common French-British-American policy today," said Pineau. He pointed to North Africa, where France blames much of its troubles on tacit U.S. support of the Arabs. "We have the impression that behind certain forms of rebellion and of propaganda there lurks the desire of certain powers to swallow up the heritage of France." Turning on the Americans present, he reproached the U.S. for backing the government of Ngo Dinh Diem against the French: "Each time you Americans do something wrong, you do it with the best of intentions. If there had been full cooperation on Indo-China...
...sense -even though the careful medieval settings often smell too much of the theater, and the score by Sir William Walton is seldom better than appropriate-Richard is much more idiomatic and natural than Olivier's Hamlet was, though by its very subject it can never match the swallow's verve and sudden tumbling heartbeat of his Henry...
...There seems to be a belief on the part of the Negroes that they have the white people hemmed up in a corner and they are not going to give an inch until they can force the white people of the community to submit to their demands-in fact, swallow them all." (The Negroes demand seating in buses on a first come, first seated basis, with whites seating from the front backward, Negroes from the back forward.) Mayor Gayle was specially vexed about the white families who give car rides to their Negro help, or pay their taxi fare...
...warm-water bath and given regular cortisone injections. As the water's temperature was increased Vickie's body began to thaw. She moved slightly; then she cried. Three and a half hours after she was put in the water, Vickie was back in bed and able to swallow liquids. Mrs. Davis, with similar treatment, took five hours to thaw...