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Word: swallower (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition to the moral distaste, the West would also have to swallow something worse: leaving Iraq with the army and the nuclear potential that made it such a threat this time around. Saddam could then celebrate his reputation as the Arab leader who stood up to the U.S., and live to challenge the region again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Sitzkrieg in The Sand | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom. This piece first ran on June...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Beating the System | 8/14/1990 | See Source »

...There is no European country that hasn't had its moments of trying to swallow up its neighbors, and I don't think Germany is any worse than any other country," says Carl Schorske, Princeton professor emeritus of history and author of Fin de Siecle Vienna. "Since the war, Germany has become rather European. In fact, even in the clues of personal behavior -- the way people walk, the way people greet you, the way they speak their language -- in all these things, there has been a tremendous change in Germany since the Nazis. I don't see another Nazism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany Toward Unity | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...dagger that I see before me? Methinks I recognize it from the Hammacher-Schlemmer catalog." (For $40,000, he will seize the implement and use it to slice some cheese.) The King also has trouble sleeping. A Sominex visual would be $20,000; for $40,000, he would actually swallow a pill; for $60,000, his insomnia can be cured, though this will take some rewriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: These Foolish Things Remind Me of Diet Coke | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...Hard to swallow, difficult to digest and often painful to look at, the daily offerings of Harvard Dining Services (HDS) are in need of radical overhaul...Among college dining services, HDS is still a lemon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Record | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

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