Word: ating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelves. He checked the water in the streams, the soil, even the ashes in the cooking fires. Finally, after months of inquiry, he discovered that when someone died, the Fore buried the corpse, then, as a way of preserving his spirit, his relations dug him up and ate selected portions. Nothing might happen for years, but eventually the women, who were the main participants in this unsavory ritual, started the fatal giggles...
Tribal councils are upset by passages referring to sexual practices, including homosexuality, oral sex as part of the marriage ceremony, the sodomizing of war prisoners and a brief mention of a woman who delivered a child and then ate some of the afterbirth. For the straitlaced Sioux, these references are a bit much. "The Lakota, next to the Cheyenne, were one of the most sexually restrained native societies that have been documented," says Sioux Anthropologist Bea Medicine. Adds JoAllyn Archambault, a Lakota Sioux studying for her Ph.D. in anthropology at Berkeley: "No one's objecting to what did happen...
WESLEY IS PISSING on his sister's 4-H diagrams of how to carve a broiled chicken. Emma, in a fit of anger, throws empty tin cans at the farmhouse because her mother took the broiler out of the freezer and ate it. Their father, Weston, came home drunk last night and broke down the front door. Ella, the mother, stands wearily in the kitchen and wonders, "What kind of a family is this...
...days, you might sigh, when an hour was 45 minutes and sometimes 90, and when people ate with spoons, and butter-knives were but a dream in Shreve, Crump of Low's darkest recesses. But if Alvin Toffler heard you he would scold, consigning you to the First Wave, which began with the original harvest. For Toffler is a visionary, looking out to sea at that big comber waiting to smash the sandcastles of today--this Third Wave, the biggest, most powerful, most blessed of all. "The Third Wave," he notes in the introduction, "is for those who think...
...three years at Camp Holmes, a former police barracks in the mountains near Baguio. As prisoners, they were far better off than captured GIs. The mountain site offered healthfully low temperatures and country-club scenery, and for most of the war was not even enclosed by a fence. Prisoners ate as well as guards, and the Japanese carefully protected Red Cross shipments from the wiles of looters and grafters. With approval of their captors, some 500 inmates organized the camp, setting up an adult education program that offered lessons in nine languages including Japanese-taught, of course, by guards...