Word: swallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same," only, "They worry about their children having to fight a war," Dith Pran wrote in a New York Times Magazine piece on his return to Cambodia for the first time since his escape from the Khmer Rouge. While the U.S. may have to swallow its pride by accepting a diplomatic victory for the Vietnamese for the moment, everyone would benefit in the long run. Everyone, that is, except the Khmer Rouge...
...every voice counts. One or two sardines may be good food, but gather enough and you have something even the Administration can't swallow...
This is a bitter pill to swallow for someone like me who grew up with legos, erector sets, tinkertoys and building blocks. These toys represented concrete creativity, encouraging experimentation with different forms and imaginary functions...
...words are prophetic. Sutherland is indeed without a people Moreover his wife gives voice to what must be the fundamental anxiety of Afrikaaners. Of the country's Black majority, she says "They'll swallow...
...Prime Minister's quandary was the stuff of high political drama: Would David Lange swallow his pride and give a Cabinet portfolio to his onetime friend turned archrival Roger Douglas, as his ruling Labour Party demanded? Lange's answer last week stunned the nation. "I intend to step down," said Lange, who cited his health as the reason for his resignation. But most political observers believe Lange quit rather than work with a man he had forced out of the Cabinet only last December for pushing economic reforms too far. Ironically, both will serve in the government...