Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they were stripped of their own clothes, allowed only shapeless, unbelted robes and floppy slippers. Wristwatches were locked up (the crystals might be broken and used in suicide attempts). Eyeglasses were removed at night because of the same fear. Even wedding bands were sometimes taken away (the patients might swallow them or drop them down the toilets). Men could not shave themselves. Bathrooms were locked, and patients could not go to them unattended. Knives and forks were banned from the dining halls, so patients had to eat with spoons. No smoking was allowed. Ward windows were barred and curtainless. There...
...college enrollments and expenses rise and the need for aid funds increases, Bender predicted, colleges will tend to "swallow hard when funds with objectionable terms or procedural requirements come along, and accept." He said the problem is making financial aid officers into "greedy mendicants...
...rasping answer to a question about Hungary during his U.S. visit, a columnist for the Indian Express wondered what the Reds were going to do about "the rat Comrade Mao has thrust down the throat of the Communist Party, and which it can neither spit out nor swallow." With evident cheerfulness, he added: "There is, at present, great danger that the rat will suffocate the Communist Party of India...
Prescriptions & Precedents. The judge's own prescription is much easier to swallow. Voting rights for some 43 million shares of G.M. stock held by the Du Pont company would pass to Du Pont shareholders on a pro rata basis (about 1⅓G.M. votes for each share of Du Pont held). Another 20 million shares would be "sterilized," i.e., not voted at all. These are the shares held by the officers and directors of Du Pont and the two other Du Pont family-controlled companies: Delaware Realty & Investment Co., which controls Christiana Securities Co., which in turn controls...
Pledge No. 7 was blue-eyed Richard T. Swanson, 21, of Hollywood, a freshman at the U.S.C. dental school. He tried to swallow the liver three times, gagged, removed it, tried once more. On his fourth try, Pledge Swanson choked and fought for breath. The brothers swatted his back, laid him face down across the table. The liver remained in his throat. Swanson struggled to his feet, stumbled out the door and collapsed. Someone called an ambulance...