Word: chomps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apart from Major Hall's crochet hooks. the image that lingers longest with the reader is that of poor Ella Haggin on a coconut isle with the ominous thrum of bongo drums in her ear, while the natives chomp raw fish for an appetizer. Author Eliot confides that eventually Ella got a divorce, but otherwise she leaves this and many another story in just the tantalizingly scrappy shape she found it in family memoirs or the gossip sheets of the gilded age. Either because of fellow feeling (she is herself the child of an Anglo-American match and bears...
Trolling tirelessly for support, White House-bent Senator Estes Kefauver switched from coonskins to Tennessee catfish, invited the Senate and the entire Capitol press corps to a fried catfish and hushpuppy lunch. Gimmick: two days later the statesmen and newsbeagles will chomp mountain trout as guests of Colorado's Democratic Senator John A. Carroll, vote to decide which fish is tastier. Not invited to the fish fries "due to the doctrine of separation of power": Trout Fisherman Dwight Eisenhower...
...sugars (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951), Physician Hans H. Neumann and Dentist Nicholas A. Di Salvo of Columbia University betook themselves to Mexico, Guatemala and darkest Peru. They found whole tribes with virtually no cavities, though they lived on a poor diet heavy with carbohydrates. The researchers made their subjects chomp down on a dynamometer, found their bites much more powerful (166 to 184 Ibs.) than those of soft-dieted Americans (127 Ibs.). Their prescription: eat more hard food...
...Force, there are no mess sergeants; a "food service technician" presides over the kitchens. Last week the commanding officer of the Boiling Air Force Base abolished a term that Army legend traces back to General George Washington. Henceforth none of its airmen will go to "mess"-they will chomp their ambrosia in "dining halls...