Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...acres of gasoline drums, quarter-mile-long warehouses piled high with C-rations, soap, lard, coffee and fruit juices. G.I. and Korean stevedores ate steadily all day long, casually hacked open 6-lb. tins of pork luncheon meat to make one sandwich, gallon tins of fruit juice for one swallow. Outside one warehouse, a black-bearded U.S. sergeant dug his plastic C-ration spoon into a 10-lb. tin of corned beef with the delicate disdain of an overweight debutante at a smörgasbord...
...Inverness Courier rallied to Nessie's defense. It denounced publication of the naval officer's account, added: "[A newspaper] must surely have a low opinion of its readers when it expects them to swallow such a story as this...
Others may have found the Freedom Declaration, which also manifests belief in democracy and a faith that "men derive the right to freedom equally from God," a bit too much to swallow. These people reject the Declaration for its literal meaning; in doing so, they fail to recognize the facts of cold war and the weapons cold war requires...
...hogwash on the so-called "flying saucers" in [another] magazine . . . I was thoroughly convinced at that time of the scientific unsoundness of his writing . . . Every person of intelligence should be indignant at the thought of anyone deliberately promoting national hysteria, based on the hallucinations of people who will swallow any fantasy thinly veiled in pseudo-scientific jargon...
Bevin began his speech in the quavering tones of a sick man. He paused to swallow a pill. Suddenly he cried: "No one here would stand more insults, more abuse, than I have from Molotov and Vishinsky." The conference roared its understanding. Bevin raised his hand high and yelled: "I do not believe the United States will ever be aggressors . . . I want to nail that lie. It is sent out by Russia to try to blind the people of the world, to throw mud . . ." The conference cheered...