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Word: swallower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Overall, an end to college career is always difficult to swallow, especially when one doesn't finish with a championship. But for these five seniors who have given so much to the soccer program over the last four years, the success that the team had this year is a tribute to their determination and leadership, in addition to the hard work and drive of everyone else...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Some Super Senior | 11/10/1994 | See Source »

Gingrich's full immersion in the details of GATT made it a little hard for the White House to swallow his sudden complaint last week that the legislation required further study. So did his sudden objection to a provision that would reduce licensing fees for three cellular-telephone companies. White House officials maintained last week that Gingrich knew about the provision all along. Yet he balked because, he said, it favored the Washington Post Co., which owns a controlling interest in one of the cellular operations and was therefore an example of the special breaks contained in the thousand-page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trickery Wins Over Trade | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

Upsets are usually stolen rather than claimed. Underdogs rarely swallow games with dominating player; they most often nibble away at them by capitalizing on mistakes and then nervously wait for the trap to snap...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: ALMOST | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

...since it serves no purpose other than alternately to bore us and make us squirm. Perhaps it's meant to be inspirational--Wurtzel did a lot of crazy stuff, but she pulled through and she's not ashamed--but instead it's pathetic. Most of us will have to swallow a lot of Prozac before we're able to swallow this...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Prozac Nation: Elizabeth Wurtzel's Unofficial Guide to Whining | 9/29/1994 | See Source »

This is a hard line for Muller to swallow, and he presses Riefenstahl to defend her opinions against critics who say that "Triumph of the Will" was a glorification of the Nazis...

Author: By Emil J. Kiehne, | Title: The Wonderful, Horrible Life and Films of Leni Riefenstahl | 9/29/1994 | See Source »

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