Word: eat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these changes but by force of arms. Switzerland, completely surrounded by combatants before the War was over, found itself on the verge of starvation for lack of foreign wheat. Only the end of the War in 1918, plus an exceptionally good harvest, saved the Swiss from famine. But armies eat chocolate, and Swiss chocolate manufacturers did a thriving business, for the Allies saw that they obtained raw materials. Swiss peasants who owned woodlots found they had a good market for fuel. Electric power derived from Swiss waterfalls was sold to both sides for use in making explosives. Meanwhile, the Swiss...
Recuperating from an appendectomy at the age of 19, Linnea Fransson of East Orange, N. J. was told by the doctor to eat what she liked. What she liked was candy, lemonade, ginger ale. She ate nothing else. She left business school, retreated to her home, sucked lollipops to her heart's content. When she began suffering from starvation, doctors at Orange Memorial Hospital tried in vain to give Linnea tube feedings and intravenous injections. For a while they persuaded her to eat an apple a day, and half a teaspoonful of raw, grated vegetables. But anything besides...
...stitched up two dresses for her sisters, sucked her last lollipop, quietly lay down and died. "Chronic malnutrition killed her," said Dr. George Potts Olcott Jr., Assistant Essex County Medical Examiner. "The autopsy performed showed no reason for starvation. Her condition was perfect but she just wouldn't eat...
...Small farmers with flocks of less than 100 birds produce 75% of U.S. eggs. Farmers eat 34% of their flocks, 25% of their eggs...
...that reflected the sunlight. The birds which alighted on it lost, first their feathers and then their lives. . . . In this sticky, slimy mass, Yosepi, Gaba, Kriwi, Doumidia and I floundered about with shouts of laughter. We gathered handfuls of it which we threw into a large bowl"-to eat...