Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half and his center forward brought the center 20 yards from the English goal with the ball at his feet. He faked a left-footed kick, then drove the ball home with a hard-rising shot from his right boot. England's Goalie Gil Merrick dived like a swallow to block it, but it shot past him. By half time, Hungary led 4-2, and the Britons, who ordinarily muddle around midfield but can be counted on for hard kicking at the goal mouth, had obviously met their match...
...from the river banks warned them of their welcome. Cornered one night, Clark and his men beat off raiding Indians hand-to-hand, killing five. But Indians kept after them. Clark and three others were later surrounded and captured, had to watch helplessly while one man was forced to swallow a blazing firebrand: "The smell of burning flesh filled the air. Finally . . . he was still and quiet . . . Thank God the man was dead." Clark and the two others were saved for a banquet, but they escaped. The party had expanded along the way, but before they reached the settlement...
Speaking for the affirmative side, Goodman claimed a Trans-Atlantic federation would swallow up purely European conflicts and guarantee, with American help, a satisfactory common defense pool...
...Chips? Humbug! Along with his predictions-and his digs at bankers and bond salesmen as incompetents-John Fox tries to give his readers a general education on how to play the market. While much of his teaching is sound, he often makes investing appear so easy that those who swallow all his advice could easily lose their shirts. He has only scorn for those who advise buying "safe, sound," dividend-paying blue chips, urges them instead to hunt for the overlooked, undervalued long shot. "Every investment," he sums up, "should be made for the primary purpose of causing capital...
...brown paper bag, a canteen of water, a rubber raft, two small flashlights, a knife, and not much more except an iron will. For the first hours, that will is lightly tested, an occasional nodding daydream, a slight arm or leg cramp. Now & then he takes a swallow of water and keeps alert by checking his instruments and charts. But after nightfall, with The Spirit of St. Louis a dot over the Atlantic, fog closes in. Lindbergh looks for holes, climbs to 10,000 ft., goes down to 10 ft. above the vicious whitecaps. Sleet comes, ice edges the wings...