Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sure we're beat up, but I'm not sure what's worse, the mental thing or the physical thing," Roby said. "There's just no reason for games like this. It's just hard to swallow...
...Alan Dershowitz attacks public nativity scenes and defends trials without due process, he is not being hypocritical, as Larew suggests, but is recognizing the vast differences between the reality in constitutional America and the reality in embattled Israel. This recognition seems to elude all those who mindlessly swallow all criticism of Israel as obviously correct. A good example of this simplistic belief in the immorality of Israel appears in Larew's article itself. Larew accuses the "Zealot" who tore down an anti-Israel poster of "denial" of the facts determined by the "indisputable photographic record." There is no defending...
Medical applications are also being rapidly developed. Researchers at Maryland's Johns Hopkins have made a pill slightly larger than a daily vitamin supplement that has a silicon thermometer and the electronics necessary to broadcast instant temperature readings to a recording device. By having a patient swallow the pill, doctors can pinpoint worrisome hot spots anywhere within the digestive tract. Future "smart pills" may transmit information about heart rates, stomach acidity or neural functions. Says Russell Eberhart, program manager at Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory: "This could change the way we diagnose and monitor patients...
...increase its 8% market share in the U.S. by acquiring respected independent firms, which are becoming a rare breed. In August the company paid $300 million to purchase Britain's Island Records, a pioneer in reggae and progressive rock. Last week Polygram said it reached an agreement to swallow an even bigger target: A&M Records, the label founded by Tijuana Brassist Herb Alpert and promoter Jerry Moss. The price, which was not disclosed, was estimated at as much as $500 million...
...remote, desolate regions. But some impinge on popular campsites, and one, ominous as a shark with wide-open jaws, is poised right on the edge of the tiny town of Tuscarora (permanent pop. 12). Julie Parks, wife of the local potter, fears that the mine is getting ready to swallow the town. First to disappear was the town swimming hole, a water-filled shaft left over from an earlier mining boom. "It's a crazy thing that's going on here," she exclaims. "I'm living in a place that may be gobbled up by a mine...