Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancient methods-magical incantations, jumping from high places, applying hot coals to the abdomen. Hawaiian women fashioned stilettos representing Kupo, god of abortions, then thrust them into the uterus. Even now, Ceylonese girls brew an abortifacient by boiling a poisonous yam in cow urine or liquid dung, and then swallow the stuff for seven days...
...Cultural and Racial Unity, a militantly antisegregationist pressure group that includes 55 bishops among its members. Episcopalians saw some possible pitfalls in their bishop's poverty campaign. "This money is to be given with no strings attached, and that's a big order for some to swallow," said California's progressive Bishop C. Kilmer Myers, who supports the proposal but thinks it will have trouble being approved. The Rev. James Brice Clark of Nebraska asked: "Why should the church put money into poverty projects when there are federal projects covering the same ground?" There were also questions...
PUCCINI: LA RONDINE (2 LPs; RCA Victor). Magda, Puccini's sad "swallow," is close kin to Verdi's Violetta, the "wayward one." Puccini's little courtesan also leads a gay, cynical life in Paris until she meets her one true love, with whom she flees to the peace of a country villa. Then, to the strains of a rending melody, she leaves her lover when she realizes that her scarlet past would shock his proper parents. Anna Moffo illuminates the most lyrical and substantial elements in her poignant role, and her characterization is nicely...
...full stomach only the most dessert-happy sword can be tempted by mackerel or squid. Fishermen have been known to make ten or more passes before a lazing giant without achieving so much as a blink from those cold blue eyes. On the wildly illogical assumption that he does swallow the bait, the battle is generally lost then and there; the only soft part of a swordfish, naturally, is his mouth. More often he is foul-hooked-in the dorsal fin, back or cheek-as he rolls around, batting the bait. But a foul hookup does nothing to impair...
Criticism from his countrymen is something South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky can answer or ignore -as the mood moves him. But crit icism from the U.S. is always a bitter pill. Last week Ky refused to swallow it. "If by the standards of a country with long experience in democracy, our elections still present serious shortcomings," he wrote to his detractors in the U.S. Congress, "I am the first Vietnamese to deplore that situation. But I can say without any doubt in my conscience that my government does not deserve any lesson in honesty and patriotism...