Word: eater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another difference was that the horse in question won with a strong finish. The Raccoon showed himself to be a voracious eater at the outset, but when the going got tough, he had trouble eating the final pancakes and was not still enjoying them as the rest of us were. He crawled across the finish line in a manner hardly befitting a champion...
WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, p.m.). Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch and James Mason in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), about a woman whose fourth marriage has reached a shattering crisis stage...
...hocks. Even those have little appeal to a gourmet palate. Soul food is often fatty, overcooked and underseasoned. Vegetables are boiled with fatback for so long that their taste and nutritional value go up in steam; meats have to be sprinkled liberally with salt and pepper to give the eater anything to remember them by. Considering the tastelessness of the cuisine, the soul-food fad seems certain to be fairly short-lived. For many Negroes, it is long since over; it ended, in fact, as soon as they could afford better food. "Let white folks eat hocks and collards," says...
Varied Effects. Once a marijuana smoker (or eater; marijuana can be mixed into such foods as salads and brownies) becomes accustomed to pot, the effect varies according to the individual. The same, of course, is true of alcohol. "The number of joints smoked depends on the mood and the group," says the Chicago housewife. "I remember one calm, musical evening when three of us went through 14 sticks. I remember another when 20 of us smoked only three." She can get high on two Scotches, and has on occasion drunk enough liquor to pass out. "But," she says, "the high...
Ambivalent Eater. Back home, however, Harris is in some disfavor. Though he will not have to run again until 1972, he has aroused the enmity of Oklahoma conservatives, who condemn his position on race and civil rights. Critics call him "politically ambivalent" because he "has lunch with Johnson and dinner with Bobby Kennedy"-which, occasionally, he does, and which is only one indication of his savvy, eupepsia and party loyalty...