Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Feb. 25 comment on the Middle East, "Even the most loyal supporters of the U.N. have to swallow hard at sanctimonious lectures on morality being delivered by agents of tyrannies," reminds me of the following line from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress: "Saint abroad, and a devil at home...
Franco made it clear that he was in no way considering any reversion to the pre-revolutionary type of Spanish constitutionalism. The U.S., although it may find it hard to swallow its ideological reticence, should do so in the interests of Western stability. All governments need not immediately be molded in Locke's image, and if unterroristic "personal rule" is the only kind that can secure a healthy Spain, it should be tolerated...
...point of fact, argued the questioners, many of the millions presumably represented by delegations in the U.N. are not free to choose their own governments, let alone influence their governments' votes in the U.N. All this was true. Even the most loyal supporters of U.N. have to swallow hard at sanctimonious lectures on morality being delivered by agents of tyrannies...
...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain 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...
...three innings, that July night in 1936, righthanded Bob Feller faced nine Cardinals and struck out eight. He had as much control, one sportswriter reported, as a drunken swallow-one wild pitch shattered a grandstand chair. But the Cleveland Indians knew they had a natural. In August of that year Feller made his first official start. He fanned 15 St. Louis Browns, just one short of Rube Waddell's record for a single game...