Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support to achieve such comprehensive results. They justify their program by referring to the help they have given individual patients. But faith healers, religious missionaries, and Norman Vincent Peale, Inc. have had as many individual cures as the psychiatrists, a fact which should give us some pause before we swallow the life adjustor's bait...
Eventually the kuru sufferer is completely helpless, unable to swallow, capable of only slight movement and feeble grunts. In a native hut, he dies of starvation, infected bedsores or pneumonia. At Okapa's hospital, Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas have prevented bedsores, and eliminated starvation as a cause of death by intravenous feedings. And still the patients die. No authentic kuru victim has recovered...
...world so falsified the character of Hamlet? "If a work of art should make a revelation which discredits what most human beings wish to believe," she writes, "they pretend that the author wrote something quite other than what he did." The world, she theorizes, would rather not swallow the "revelation" contained in Hamlet...
Done up in a white tie and swallow-tailed coat, 56-year-old Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, addressed Pope Pius XI on Feb. 12, 1931: "Holy Father, the world is listening. Speak." Said the Pope: "Listen, O heavens, listen, O earth, listen, all peoples, lend your ear all of you who inhabit the globe...
They know what is to them the bitter truth: the revolution erupted because Hungarian students didn't believe what they had been taught and couldn't be made to swallow munists would pursue anywhere they munist educational system, in eleven years of trying, failed miserably to make communists out of Hungarian children...