Word: eating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a nocturnal creature suddenly caught in the sun, Deferrari recoiled from the wave of questions that followed. When someone asked him what he ate, he replied with octogenarian bluntness: "I ask my bowels. If they need food that will go right through me, I eat fruit. If I'm feeling good, I cook myself a steak...
...bloody graveyard!" Clusters of Germans watched curiously from a nearby hillside as the refugees moved into the camp. Refugee children refused food because, they sobbed, it was being offered them by German hands. British official?; explained that the food handlers were D.P.s, but the children still refused to eat...
...hard look at the always meager Soviet crop statistics belied the bright hope. At the present level of rationing, Soviet citizens annually eat 37,152,500 tons of grain. An end of rationing might increase consumption by half as much again. Best estimates put this year's crop at 43,500,000 tons, which would still not be enough for so large an increase...
Said Mexico City's Ultimas Noticias: "It is said that the mules must be bathed every eight days with warm water. Their hides must be trimmed and disinfected periodically. They have been accustomed to eat oats and other fine foods which our farmers might wish to have for themselves on a day of fiesta...
...original $7.50 went for stationery. For months after Betty Oliver quit her $250-a-month job, she an; Business Girl all but starved. "I had to sell a subscription before I could eat lunch," she says. "I had one suit and wore it all week, and had it cleaned over the weekend while I stayed home and did the editorial work...