Word: eatening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...response to a four-meal "peace fast" proposed by the Harvard Moratorium Committee for December 12 and 13, University officials have issued an unprecedented offer for rebates on meals not eaten in the University dining halls...
...SECOND point of this policy- the reorganization of local government- might even do more to aggravate stolidly Republican suburbia. Moynihan correctly calls urban government "fragmented and obsolescent." The flight of both industry and middle class to the suburbs has eaten away at the urban tax base. This smaller tax base must simultaneously finance more and more government services for the outcast population left behind...
...action slackened up long enough for the demonstrators to start thinking about their stomachs instead of their heads. Hundreds of people kept a constant supply of food and water flowing to the front until everyone had eaten his fill. But even after the hunger and thirst had been satiated, the supply line continued to bring food as if life were indeed dependent upon it. The fact that an unorganized group which had somehowcome together in a common cause was able to feed itself, set up lines of communication, muster lawyers and doctors to the scene was a source...
...strains have further weakened Democratic political machines, diminished mayoral patronage powers and eaten into old special-interest coalitions. Republicans, independents and rebels suddenly have solid chances to win in unexpected places. Some examples...
...strange, puffy quality. Then it begins to work within a scheme of resemblances. The nose metamorphoses into a fireplug; the plug into a coin phone box; the phone into a car." Once, just to discover exactly what did happen to a banana's shape when it was being eaten, Oldenburg made five banana shapes out of canvas, filled them with plaster, peeled the "skin" and bit them all down to varying sizes. "I spit the plaster out," he says. "It tasted terrible. But I had five bananas, each very different...