Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this key figure Cole developed a series of awesome corollaries. For the benefit of Chicagoans, he pointed out that such a crater would swallow the whole of downtown Chicago. Within it could be placed "140 structures the size of our nation's Capitol." Around it would extend a circle of complete destruction three miles in radius (big enough to cover nearly all of Washington, D.C.). "Severe-to-light" destruction would reach seven miles far ther in every direction...
Miss Julie displays far more effectively the genius of director Alf Sjoberg than that of Strindberg, for the visual effects threaten to swallow the story itself. Although the script changes barley a line of the play, the film projects the drama on an infinitely broader canvas, interpolating speeches with artful flashbacks. As a result, Miss Julie dispels much of the tautness and unity of the play and frequently accentuates its dated melodrama. Whether a less imaginative transcription of Miss Julie would hold much interest for modern audiences is questionable, however. The place of Strindberg's picture of tormented souls...
...shop. There, while both of them kept a nervous ear cupped for the sudden cry of "Poll!" (police) from a boy on watch, the avid customer would receive his prize - a crispy, crunchy sparrow fried whole in deep olive oil. In one gleeful gulp, the lucky Madrileno would swallow it, claws, beak...
President Eisenhower was willing to swallow broad compromises for the Bricker amendment, but-and here the President leaned forward with his hands flat on his desk and spoke with utter earnestness-when you come down to this, that we have to go right back to the general system that prevailed before our Constitution was adopted, then he certainly never shall agree...
...asked the old ex-Premier. "You didn't have to, you know." "But." answered Pella, "it was too bitter a pill to swallow." De Gasperi, who had worked for months to keep party and Pella together, replied sadly: "If you only, knew how many bitter pills you. Pella, have made me swallow." Within 24 hours. Pella boarded a northbound train for Biello and his aged mother. "Now," said he. "I can do some skiing...