Word: cannibalisme
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Such was one of the questions which Columbia's famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike lately put to 40 unemployed young men and women. The men asked a median price of $260,000,000, the women $1,375,000. Next Professor Thorndike promised them secrecy in their cannibalism. Promptly the...
"Deprive a native Solomon Islander of vitamins and proteins demanded by nature and he will eat his neighbor. Give him natural food and he will become ashamed of his former flesh eating. Cannibalism was originally due to lack of meat in the islands. Then it became surrounded by ceremonials. Weaker...
"When I am particularly angry with an ex-cannibal or his children, I call them such. It is worse than a slap in the face. They would rather eat bully beef than human flesh because there is more salt in it. I don't think they would eat white...
When Cardinal Innitzer first began to charge that Soviet citizens were starving, a spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Office remarked. "In Russia, I am happy to say, we have no famine and no cardinals" (TIME, Aug. 28). Soon afterward, on a goodwill visit to Russia, French ex Premier Edouard Herriot...
Bligh soon proved his mettle. Rigidly keeping to his share of the starvation rations, he did much more than his share of the work, again & again saved them from foundering by skillful seamanship. When they landed at the island of Tofoa to replenish their water and food, the natives soon...