Word: swallows
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...hard is it to swallow?” asked Princeton coach Roger Hughes. “I can’t think of any taste in my mouth that would be worse than this. I can think of putting a skunk in my mouth, of putting anything in my mouth, and I’m telling you the feeling I have right now [would] be worse...
...much work remains if the faculty is to swallow this review, especially if faculty perceive this review as a top-down effort concentrated in the hands of administrators, including Summers, who several current administrators say was chomping at the bit to get his fingers—but not his fingerprints—on the review...
This September saw the White House’s first half-hearted attempt to swallow its pride and ask the international community for help. After circumventing the United Nations Security Council and ignoring weapons inspectors in the run-up to war—and refusing for nearly five months after the invasion to consult with the General Assembly—Bush returned to the U.N. to rally support. We were pleased that the president recognized—implicitly, if not openly—the errors of his unilateral approach and the need for assistance from an institution he once wrote...
...irony is that while the Administration was busy packaging politics as news, the news is itself becoming ever more politicized. The whole Medicare video ploy rested on the assumption that viewers would swallow the message with greater credulity if it were framed as journalism. But if the Bush Administration plans to stick with this strategy, it better get to work preserving Americans’ trust in the news...
...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...