Word: swallower
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
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...