Word: diets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squat Yorkshire digger, "They 'aven't larnt to talk English proper." Back of this pettiness was an unreasoning fear of unemployment that discourages hard work in all of Britain's heavy industries. Haunted by depression memories of dole and idleness and "bread and drip" (a diet of bread spread with cooking grease), British coal miners expect to safeguard their now-well-paid jobs by keeping coal in short supply. "They don't want coal," said a bitter Italian. "For them, la mancanza fa la forza-power through shortage...
...longer would pert Radcliffe classmates snootily tell him that they didn't date "freshmen." He felt he had grown up over the summer, and might now talk about the current Coolidge-LaFollette Davis Presidential race with authority. During the fall, he Crimson treated him to an almost undiluted diet of football, religion, politics, and more football...
...grew up in Pembrokeshire, Wales, a quiet girl who sometimes broke out in bitter clashes with her lawyer father. In 1895, at 19, she left home to study art with her brother Augustus in London. "We shared a room together," remembers Augustus, "subsisting like monkeys on a diet of fruit and nuts." Gwen soon crossed to Paris. She wrote her brother: "There are people like plants who cannot flourish in the cold, and I want to flourish...
Until recently, only Andean Indians fished in Titicaca's icy waters, supplementing their meager diet by scooping up the lake's teeming, sardine-sized boga with small hand nets. Then Lieut. Colonel Howard O. Moores Jr., of the U.S. Air Force mission in La Paz, stopped by Titicaca during an Andean fishing trip. He unpacked his gear, assembled his rod and cast out into the lake. Recalls Moores: "As soon as the bait hit the water, the biggest fish I've ever had on a line hit it like a hungry dog grabbing a T-bone steak...
...town of 2,000, perched prettily on a hillside 40 miles east of Rome. It has a fine breeze, a good view, a Communist regime, and fresh-skinned girls whom Rome artists favor as models. But it has little work; the local wage is 65? a day. The main diet is beans and bread...