Word: diets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic priest himself. This week, Hegger will open Europe's first organized haven for ex-priests: a 17-room house in the village of Velp. near Arnhem. To be known as the Wartburg. in memory of the castle where Martin Luther found refuge after his condemnation by the Diet of Worms in 1521, Hegger's haven will provide temporary shelter for clerics who have turned in their Roman collars...
...where peasants hack at the hard soil with primitive hoes. Two months ago, the first rains in eight months brought a green fuzz to the sertāo. But drought had already ruined this year's crop of beans, corn and manioc-root flour, mainstays of the peasant diet. Famine swept the sertāo, sending thousands of camponeses to the towns in search of food...
...gastroenteritis and chistosoma, a debilitating liver parasite that infects one-fifth of the rural population. Average life expectancy in Brazil's Northeast is 30 years, and in Rio Grande do Norte, 463 of every 1,000 babies die in their first year. Most infants are fed a diet of manioc flour mixed with molasses, never taste milk and sometimes do not even get enough water. In Cruz de Armas, a village in Paraiba, the government operates an infant "rehydration station," which dispenses a watery soup to hundreds of children carried in by their parents. In one Rio Grande...
Belinsky was unbelievably wild all spring, giving up three or four walks an inning, heaving as many wild pitches as strikes, and feeding sprawling hitters a straight dirt diet. Through storms of abuse, he maintained his brash self-confidence, insisting that he was just worn out from a heavy load of winter ball...
Belinsky was unbelievably wild all spring, giving up three or four walks an inning, heaving as many wild pitches as strikes, and feeding sprawling hitters a straight dirt diet. Through storms of abuse, he maintained his brash self-confidence, insisting that he was just worn out from a heavy load of winter ball...