Word: swallows
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...take a phone call from someone in the media," Silverglate says, comparing his situation to that of Dershowitz. "You get dragged into these things and they try to swallow...
...allowing chance to work its will on him, at first believes he will enjoy feeling stranger in a strange land. North Africa, he thinks, will offer escape into adventure, exotic peril, the seductions of oblivion. He is wrong. The desert demands his surrender. The sand is quicksand; it will swallow him whole...
With a 10% drop in foreign trade last year and an even more damaging cut to its almost bankrupt economy anticipated this year, North Korea is being forced to swallow its principles and make friends with the countries it has long loved to vilify. September saw the first high-level meeting between North and South Korea; a second round of talks was conducted last month. And just days before the Moscow-Seoul accord, Pyongyang asserted its eagerness to normalize diplomatic relations with Japan, its bitterest enemy of all since the brutal Japanese occupation of the peninsula from...
Perhaps my trust in "faceless bureaucrats" will never win me a seat on the council, or worse yet, a dinner with Ralph Nader. If so, these are the bitter pills I must swallow for a tempered resistance to misapplied democracy. No doubt, Tocqueville would have agreed...
...dangerous, sometimes causing death on the spot. An article that Beasley and a colleague published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association recommends, among other things, that police carry artificial resuscitation devices for their four- footed friends and a supply of activated charcoal that the dogs can swallow in solution to absorb most drugs before digestion. Because dogs, unlike their masters, just...