Word: eating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rifles made in China and Czechoslovakia, hand grenades and medical supplies bearing Chinese lettering. Laotian witnesses testified that troops attacking them were identifiable as North Vietnamese not only by their green uniforms but by their language ("Mau! Mau!"-Quick! Quick!) and even by the common rice they ate (Laotians eat glutinous rice). Ten captured Pathet Lao rebels admitted that from one-third to one-half of their units were filled out by North Vietnamese. But when the Laotian government was unable to produce any North Viet Nam prisoners, the U.N. team (a Tunisian, a Japanese, an Italian and an Argentinian...
...from turning fantasy into vision, it fails to save it from sentimentality. Not only are all the play's characters uniformly nice, but exorcism seems a convenient miracle drug, and the happily vanishing young couple suggests the schizophrenia of playwrights who would give meaning to their words and eat them too. In certain ways, The Tenth Man suggests the fine stories of Jewish Fantasist Bernard Malamud (TIME, May 12, 1958) but in the ways that count most, it falls far short of them...
James P. Mitchell has weaseled again. Of course, he probably had every intention of keeping his promise to "literally eat my hat," but, at the last moment, somebody persuaded him that felt fedoras were essential to the nation's safety and welfare, and could not be sacrificed to a promise. So Secretary Mitchell ate his cake...
...study of undergraduate eating habits begun yesterday concluded that "most people eat the tomato off the lettuce and throw away the rest...
...Secretary of Labor James Mitchell stated on April 7 that if unemployment did not go below 3 million in October, he would literally eat his hat on the Labor Department steps. Because of the steel strike, the unemployment figure for this month is expected to be slightly over 3 million. Official figures are due out on November 10. (New York Times, 10/19/59...