Word: swallowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over his plan to swallow Berlin, after all the buildup and the bluster, Nikita Khrushchev called the first press conference of his premiership. Looking relaxed and chipper, and sporting a glistening gold peace-dove emblem in his lapel, the Soviet boss told 250 reporters in the wood-paneled oval room of the Kremlin's Council of Ministers Building that the notes his government had just sent the U.S., Britain and France were not in "the form of an ultimatum." But, he said over and over, the Soviet Union regards West Berlin as "a cancerous tumor," and sees "no other...
...Palace speech, Khrushchev lashed out at dangerous West German "military circles" who are "playing with fire." Playing on fears that are still lively in Poland and Czechoslovakia, Khrushchev charged that "with the approval of NATO, the ruling circles of West Germany use every means to rouse military ambitions to swallow up" former German lands to the East. To stir up latent Western antagonisms toward Germany, Khrushchev asserted: "Economically, West Germany is flying at .the throat of its West European allies." 'TO frighten Wrest Germans, he warned that their "geographical position" and Soviet "modern military techniques" ensure that "West Germany...
Apparently even Red China's disciplined masses had found the sudden shifts in Peking's Quemoy policy too much to swallow. Only two months ago millions of Chinese students and workers were whipped into a synthetic fenzy of rage at "U.S. invasion" of Quemoy and the other offshore islands (TIME. Sept. 22). Scarcely had these demonstrations reached the proper pitch of hysteria when Peking did an about-face, proclaimed first a cease-fire and then its present senseless policy of shelling Quemoy only on alternate days, as if to show that if Red China could not take...
...times downright sickened . . ." The New York World Telegram's Leslie Hanscom fumed that "there were moments . . . when my whole instinct was to land a Babbitt's righteous punch on the super-civilized nose of the author . . . The novel has a tone which says that, if you cannot swallow its exquisitely distilled sewage with a good appetite, then you'd better go back where you belong and read Elbert Hubbard's Scrapbook...
...worth $10.00. One major mattress maker now gives his retailers a choice of three different list prices to be sewn to the ticking. Which preticket the merchant chooses depends on 1) what sales price he plans to ask, 2) how big a reduction he thinks his customers will swallow...