Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think if Adams had received the prize, it could have caused serious problems in the Unionist Party," he said. "I think that most moderate party members in the Unionist community would find it too difficult to swallow...
...share." Why not? Because some breakthrough innovation could turn this fast-moving industry upside-down in a heartbeat, or so the theory goes. But in the tradition-bound setting of a courtroom, such Clintonesque semantics--"It depends on what you mean by monopoly"--may be a tough act to swallow. David Boies, the Justice Department's chief counsel and a veteran of the old IBM antitrust suit, told TIME last week that he intends to ask everyone who testifies to stake his or her credibility on whether Windows constitutes a monopoly. "I doubt even [Microsoft's] witnesses will be able...
...only a matter of course before new horizons in economics were explored and charted Demand for Ready-to-Eat Cereal and Its Implications for Price Competition, Merger Analysis, and Valuation of New Brands. Men who are befuddled by female sex lingo can seek counsel in Hard to Swallow: The Form and Meaning of Women's Oral Sex Talk. And it isn't simply a coincidence that The English Patient drove women to chocolate binges and mallomar fetishes. Film-induced Sadness as a Trigger for Disinhibited Eating Among Dieting Women scrutinizes this cultural phenomenon in exhaustive detail. It takes...
...esteemed president continues his journey of repentance and spiritual renewal, his lawyers and aides continue the far more essential task of making excuses. And, if there is anything that the American people swallow more easily than apple pie and apologies, it is excuses. We understand--he was lonely, his appetites got the better of him, the lawsuit was politically motivated, Ken Starr is Satan...
...knew what he had to say, and he was choking out an apology of sorts, though he never used the word. And I was with him. I could only imagine how difficult it was for him. Lord knows, it was painful just to watch. I was almost willing to swallow his claim that his answers in the Jones deposition were "legally accurate." I had hoped he wouldn't try to slice his own words into a meaningless pile of razor-thin legalisms, but I told myself his lawyers had probably demanded it. So I set it aside...