Word: eatening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eaten & Trampled. At Selassie's second stop, in Kingston, Jamaica, the airport was mobbed by 2,000 members of a minority Negro cult called the Rastafarians, who worship Selassie as God and want the Jamaican government to send them "home" to Ethiopia. Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante, 82, has discouraged such repatriation, saying wryly: "We must protect them. They would just get out there in the jungle and be trampled by elephants and eaten by the lions." Undiscouraged, the Rastas showed up at the airport waving placards reading "Hail to the Lord Anointed" and chanting "Selassie is Christ...
...Black Mischief (1932), a hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England, his feelings find blackly humorous expression: the British hero, inquiring after his British sweetheart in an African town, is cheerfully informed that she was the principal ingredient in the stew he has just eaten...
...catch of shrimp, lobster, mackerel and sardines is sold for export, and that Keralans "largely ignore the sweet potatoes, bananas, pineapples and coconuts that abound" in the state [Feb. 25]. Fish and shrimp are part of the regular diet of millions of people, and the other items mentioned are eaten daily. Unfortunately, the prices of such commodities have risen tremendously recently...
...Peking airport en route to Hanoi for a "technical stopover." An unsmiling Finance Minister Li Hsien-nien was on hand to greet the Russian, dapper in a well-cut coat with Persian lamb collar and matching cap. The Chinese had prepared lunch, but the Russians had fore-handedly eaten on the plane, so generalities were exchanged about the weather, and the Ilyushin winged aloft a scant 50 minutes after landing...
...miles to the north. Their offense was refusal to move into new government housing, where the rent of $5.60 a month was a third, the Bantus claimed, of what they could hope to earn. Visiting the compound, Bishop Crowther found most of the natives without food; some had not eaten in four days...