Word: swallowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggested that he might be ready to bring the Yemen war to an end, and he has hinted that he would like to restore diplomatic ties with the U.S. But to accept Israel as Tito proposed still seems to be too bitter a pill for defeated Arabs to swallow. Obviously even Tito had his doubts that Nasser would take the medicine; as an alternative to ending the "state of war" by frank Arab concession, Tito suggested that the U.N., or Russia...
Either way, Congress, refracting the tax bill with myriad political and economic considerations, is unlikely to swallow the President's program whole. It will be a cold day in Washington, probably in November, before the bill -or whatever remains of it-emerges from Congress...
...pollution. There's the rub. Because the bill goes to the White House as a single package, the President, lacking an item veto, must reject the entire bill or accept it all. And no Congressman doubts that Lyndon Johnson will have to forget his deficit, gulp hard and swallow the bill whole-including such frills as the Delaware River-Tocks Island reservoir and recreational program at the New Jersey-New York-Pennsylvania border, which was originally supposed to cost $90.4 million but has since grown to a tidy little $198 million affair...
...customers find that a pretty pilot makes those stiff fares easier to swallow, Air Inter presumably will not mind. But Rear Admiral Paul Hebrard, a retired naval aviator who is Air Inter's chairman, insists that Mlle. Dubut is aboard only because the airline has now outgrown its supply of males. "Her record was faultless. There was no reason not to hire her," he says. Not content to leave well enough alone, the admiral makes the ridiculous claim: "She must also be considered not as a girl...
...world's 110 million Arabs have shown time and again a total inability to swallow their pride-and a total ability to swallow their own hyperbole. The worse their humiliation, the more unbending they seem to become. A refusal to accept unpalatable reality can be a very human trait on which the Arabs have no monopoly; yet the Arabs carry it to dazzling extremes. What ails them? Can they overcome their condition and function successfully in today's world? Or are they really a case of arrested development, doomed for generations to the kind of emotional and political...