Word: swallows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian gesture because it knew that the Russians had fostered a puppet government in their section of Korea and backed it with a Soviet-trained and armed Korean army 100,000 strong. If the U.S. Army pulled out of South Korea, the Soviet puppets in the north could easily swallow the whole country...
...wouldn't be seen dead in a genealogy room, but you may want to check whether or not this 15th Century illumination (see cut, left) is the same device used in the Wallace coat of arms which you describe as "an ostrich about to swallow a horseshoe" [TIME...
...progress for Pitcairn to swallow. For one thing, it would mean giving up the old schoolhouse that John Adams, last of the mutineers, had built some 150 years ago. There Adams first taught the islanders to read from the Bounty's Bible, and to write with the worn quill pens from Captain Bligh's desk...
...beaten in any election I ever took part in, even when it was running for captain of the baseball team in school." Since 1928, when his candidate for governor lost out in the primary, Ed Crump had always made good on his boast. Last week, he was trying to swallow...
...Farewell. The travelers moved on via gay Shanghai (where, after celebrating, Perelman next day could swallow nothing but "a little clear broth made of Angostura, lemon peel, and bourbon"), the Malay States, and Ceylon. "The last we saw of India . . . was a wizened beggar signaling us frantically for baksheesh. When none was forthcoming, he threw aside his servile manner and, bounding beside our porthole, dynamically thumbed his nose at us until we outdistanced him. It was a touching, and somehow an apt, symbol of the amity between our two great nations...