Shooting pool as the jukebox played a Beatles song in a neighborhood tavern, Karl Sorenson laid his stick aside for a moment and grabbed his beer for a deep swallow.
But occasionally I have to take a deep swallow, pick up my quill, inhale sharply, gather my thoughts and, after a couple of hours of hard thinking, get it down on paper.
In 1981, in Winter Park, Fla., a sinkhole 350 feet wide and 75 feet deep "swallowed a three-bedroom wood frame home," according to The Orlando Sentinel, as well as "part of the city's swimming pool and at least five Porsches from a German car business.
Just over two months later, in the predawn blackness of Aug. 3, 2012, the earth opened up — a voracious maw 325 feet across and hundreds of feet deep, swallowing 100-foot trees, guzzling water from adjacent swamps and belching methane from a thousand feet or more beneath the surface.
The hole, which is around 20m deep, swallowed a car and left a crater of about 40m wide.
But I'd tell Ms. Rosshandler to take a deep breath, swallow and turn down a deal that sucks".
So, I take a deep breath, swallow my pride and my programming that's telling me how I should react and I say: "You're right!
This is where you have to take a deep breath, swallow your anxiety and self doubt, and have courage to stand by your thoughts and proposals.
Photo and caption by Marc Henauer / National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest Swallows Cave A freediver swim in the deep of "swallows cave" in Tonga.
Too deep and swallowed up by Cech.
For example, Iltifat Husain wrote on KevinMD.com about a tweet that told someone (incorrectly) that "if movement, deep breaths, swallowing makes pain worse or better, it is NOT a heart attack". Studies such as this one published in the American Journal of Infection Control have found extensive misinformation being spread around Twitter.
