Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four years Bill Clinton learned that it is not enough to be smart or charming or plump with vision. His triumph on Tuesday night, for all the records it broke, was a victory for studied modesty; for a willingness to swallow his pride to preserve his power, embrace his enemies to steal their ideas and march into history as the first two-term Democrat since F.D.R., not with great leaps forward but one baby step at a time...
Mind you, she won't ask you things you actually know from being at college, such as what happened in last week's episode of The Simpsons or how many gulps of tequila it is humanly possible to swallow while two people are dangling you from your legs and the rest of the crowd at the party is counting out your sips in drunken unison. She will grill you on topics you know nothing about such as which classes to take or where to open a bank account...
Instead of saving money by raising fares--which Pedro called "a bitter pill the riders wouldn't be ready to swallow"--or cutting back on service, the MBTA decided to privatize, a move which it estimates will save $27 million annually...
...dream of the Eastern Championship have been washed away and that is quite a difficult fact to swallow for a team with such high hopes...
...what you still have to go through to keep the disease in check. Patients on combination therapy often have to swallow 20 to 50 pills a day. Since some of the drugs have to be taken on an empty stomach and others with food, it can be difficult to stick to the prescribed regimen. Yet if patients skip even a single dose, the small amounts of HIV that remain in their bodies can become resistant and spread anew. Most suffer side effects in the first few months that include severe diarrhea, muscle spasms and anemia...