Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bluntly said that no setback would be more galling than "seeing our East German allies defect to NATO." Yevgeni Primakov, one of Gorbachev's closest associates on the Presidential Council, agreed in a conversation a few weeks ago: "A united Germany in NATO is something we just can't swallow...
...Procter & Gamble, the charges have been too bitter to swallow. In an angry response, the Cincinnati-based consumer products firm yanked its advertising, worth as much as $1 million a year, from the Boston station. "We felt very strongly that our integrity was being attacked, and we could not let that go unchallenged," said Don Tassone, a P&G spokesman. He noted that Folgers contains less than 2% Salvadoran beans. "In addition, and this is important to us, we are supported by our Government's policy," Tassone said. In a recent letter to the company, Under Secretary of State Robert...
...tsubame (swallow) did not make this spring. Twelve of the 70 works in the Sotheby's sale failed to reach their reserves and went unsold. On the night of the Van Gogh sale at Christie's, a Manet, The Bench, made only $16.5 million -- not chickenfeed, but still a disappointment considering Christie's presale estimate of $20 million to $25 million. In addition, an exceptional 1925 Mondrian made $8.8 million; Christie's estimate had been $12 million to $16 million...
...story goes that Orlov had chosen the site by simply pointing to a place on the shoreline while cruising in a motorboat with cronies. Building was already under way when someone discovered that this was the precise spot where the famous Verninsky earthquake had caused the lake to swallow up 35 acres of shoreline in the 19th century; it was a seismically active region. But instead of canceling the project, the authorities transferred responsibility to the Ministry of Medium Machine Building. One scientist taunted me: "Do you know who's in charge of the murder of Baikal? Your own Slavsky...
...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...