Word: swallower
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...settlement was hard for Mitzi to swallow. "It was against my basic philosophy and the principles of the Comedy Store that this settlement was made," she told the Los Angeles Times's William Knoedelseder. "You might say I was unionized into a corner." Mitzi got a fig leaf of satisfaction three years later, when an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board ruled that the comedians, as independent contractors, could not be unionized. "In my personal view, workman's comp, benefits - those were always in the back of Mitzi's mind as something that would break the Comedy...
...That makes South Carolina a nice microcosm of the national Republican race for the White House, and it is the reason that all of the candidates are swilling the sweet tea in a final 48-hour quest to find a message that enough voters will swallow...
...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...
...equally unlikely triumphs. Most of these films insist they are based on "true" stories, though none that I know of confess to those melodramatic heightenings of the facts that, sooner or later, place lumps in our throats - which, according to taste, we either wallow in or try to swallow back...
...stuns it into unconsciousness. Next, its throat is cut, at which point it dies of exsanguination. It’s not exactly a pretty process, but if—like me—you really like hamburgers, the reality of the process is just something that you have to swallow...