Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Afterward, Communist Chou tendered a great banquet (on the menu: swallow's-nest soup, kidney, chicken, fish, shark's fins, crab, abalone, mushrooms, Peking duck, broccoli in oyster sauce). Toasts were drunk in Chinese wine. The Chinese showed a movie in color, a harrowing love story. Both sides issued a short statement: "We feel that these talks have been useful." Then Hammarskjold flew back to New York via the Pacific, completing an around-the-world swing. On leaving, he sent Chou his "sincere personal thanks...
...basement two months ago, and she was extra careful to empty her tub of lye water well away from little Mike, who was playing on the floor near by. But Mike, 28 months, found the drain hose, and some of the lye solution was still in it. Mike swallowed and screamed. His mother rushed him to a doctor, who gave him mineral oil and kept him on soothing milk and ice cream for three weeks. But one morning Mike could no longer swallow: scar tissue had closed his esophagus (gullet). He was driven 124 miles through a snowstorm to Denver...
...Masaryk-Benes liberalism. She won two medals for her anti-Nazi underground activity in the war, but lost her husband (the Germans shot him). She became a changed woman. When the Communists destroyed Czech democracy in 1948, Ludmila stood by without a quiver, and even helped the Communists to swallow up her own party. Oldtime friends couldn't understand the switch, but Ludmila knew what she was doing: while they went into exile she went from Industry Minister to Minister of Food. She rose though production dropped, now has what is nominally the highest post held by any woman...
...Syrian villain's eye, the frame takes in a stupefied huddle of tropical port: the tiny, eyeless box-buildings, the hot grey roads, the depraved palms, the dirty water that slides about the harbor. Beneath every scene is the sense of the black human jungle waiting to swallow all importance, and down upon everything blasts the terrible sun, like a pagan god who has come too near and made human life unbearable...
...only chance for survival. The foreign policy split is particularly aggravated by the continual juggling of the co-existence idea. Whereas the Soviets' use of the word has given it the unsavory flavor of "appeasement," Knowland has pushed further by charging that co-existence will allow Russia to swallow the free world. Unfortunately, the extremist attitude toward foreign policy both confuses the meaning of co-existence and limits its value as a practical approach for meeting the Soviet threat...