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He did not mellow, but was swallowed by history’s zeitgeist.
After China's PartyBEIJING: China has now finished celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mao's revolution, but the hangover cure that so many people in the West have been urging upon the country -- a healthy dose of devaluation -- is unlikely to be swallowed.
Iran would find itself the bogeyman of the Arab world’s Sunnis, while Hezbollah could be swallowed up by another debilitating Lebanese civil war.
For example, the fanatical Red Guard movement swallowed up almost every youth of the right age.
But its preferred template was to expand the North America Free Trade Agreement (Canada, Mexico, and the US) to the Andean countries and include huge doses of non-trade-related issues, which they swallowed.
The fixed star grew darker and became a black hole that swallowed its own light and that of lesser stars.
Entitlements that were meant to address moral claims of equal citizenship have been swallowed by cynical political powerbrokers.
To protect his position, Zeus swallowed the pregnant Metis whole.
His life was quite swallowed up in a consciousness of suffering and a desire to be released from it.
He saw the Princess red, overwrought, her grey hair out of curl, and with tears which she energetically swallowed, biting her lips.
Then his father, Nicolas Maheu, called Le Rouge, when hardly forty years of age had died in the pit, which was being excavated at that time: a land-slip, a complete slide, and the rock drank his blood and swallowed his bones.
All four, standing up in the smoky light of the candle, swallowed their meals hastily.
He only understood one thing well: the shaft swallowed men by mouthfuls of twenty or thirty, and with so easy a gulp that it seemed to feel nothing go down.
The devouring shaft had swallowed its daily ration of men: nearly seven hundred hands, who were now at work in this giant ant-hill, everywhere making holes in the earth, drilling it like an old worm-eaten piece of wood.
"It is because of mother that I didn't like being turned into the street," he said, after having swallowed a mouthful.
She swallowed a second mouthful and forced him to take one too, wishing to share, she said; and that little tin that went from one mouth to the other amused them.
He had swallowed his last mouthful.
Her hope was that the old man had not swallowed all the soup.
Although Catherine had already poured water on the coffee-dregs of the day before, she did so over again, and swallowed two large glasses of coffee so weak that it looked like rusty water.
"No, thanks; I've just swallowed mine."
At the Estaminet Lenfant they came right upon Pierron, who was finishing his second glass, and who, in order not to refuse to touch glasses, swallowed a third.
Then, having swallowed his mouthful, the old man muttered slowly:"You can say what you like, and it will be all the same as if you said nothing.
A well-equipped pit today costs from fifteen hundred thousand francs to two millions; and it is difficult enough to get a moderate interest on the vast sum that is thus swallowed.
The father and mother also restrained themselves, in order to leave more; but the old man greedily swallowed everything.
To think that they swallowed all his humbug, and went away with empty hands while he ate the cod in this warm place, tickled his sides with amusement.
From her childhood she had swallowed so much that she was surprised she bore it so badly, with buzzing ears and burning throat.
On the way he caught up a band of women among whom he recognized Mother Brulé and the Levaque woman; as they walked they were eating chestnuts which Mouquette had brought; they swallowed the skins so as to feel more in their stomachs.
He made no complaint, but mechanically took his tin from time to time and swallowed a gulp of gin, shaking so much that he thought he needed it to carry him to the end.
Above the north gallery of Mirou the ground sank in to such an extent, that the Joiselle road, for the distance of a hundred metres, had been swallowed up as though by the shock of an earthquake; and the Company, disturbed at the rumours raised by these accidents, paid the owners for their vanished fields without bargaining.
He had even accepted, as a lucky chance, at the last moment, their offer to keep him as divisional engineer, thus resigning himself to watch, as a simple salaried servant, over that pit which had swallowed up his fortune.
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