Word: swallows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editorials are hardly designed to convince: most of those who already agree with policies of the Youth for Democracy will find "The New Student" pleasant reading; those who oppose AYD and the HYD affiliate will find it noxious. And the hesitant center group will probably be unable to swallow the mass of dogma, blatant assertions, and--in instances--half-truths and twisted conclusions it contains, although the typography is excellent...
Strikes are comparatively rare in Britain these days. Most British workers have been willing enough to heed their government's pleas, swallow their grievances and stay on the job. But there are some things a self-respecting Briton can't swallow. That was the way of it with 26-year-old Alf Cole, driver's mate on a lorry owned by Wells and Winch, the big brewers of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire...
...Communist powers sit back waiting for the next Communist move. Marshall created a crisis for the Russians when they had to decide last summer whether they would take part in the ERP meeting in Paris. They didn't, but it was a bitter pill for their satellites to swallow...
Back from a European tour last week, Bowles boosted the impartial character of the U.N. drive, poked at U.S. (and Soviet) aid programs as "political": "[Recipients] are bitter at having to swallow the hammer & sickle or the American eagle. . . ." It was a bumbling beginning, but the American people, whose tax dollars had provided billions of unconditional foreign aid, could be expected to chip in again...
...speech was a bitter pill for the millions of British miners, railwaymen, shipyard and textile workers and others who have been clamoring for higher wages. It was bitter, too, for Trades Union Congress leaders. T.U.C. men would not swallow the dose without angry protests when they met Attlee and his cabinet this week; some were already muttering that they would not be able to hold the rank & file in line...