Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chiding ever so gently, the President urged those tempted to waste at table to "take all you want but eat all you take. The first words I can remember in my dad's house were very simple but very direct. Clean up your plate before you get up from the table. And that is still pretty good advice." One waited for the suggestions to purchase a good heavy coat, drink a glass of warm milk before retiring and feed a colchand starve a fever. Ford came close. "Guard your health," he warned. "This will materi ally strengthen our attack...
...will line the shores Sunday starting at 11 a.m., sipping rum and feasting on fried chicken, the regatta is a reminder of what rowing used to be. As they admire the precision and the colors, and revel in the bygone aristocratic ambience, most are unaware of the dog-eat-dog competition--the aggressive rowing, shrewd steering, even the confidence in a coxswain's voice--which separates the winners from the nature lovers...
...make an issue of the fact that Hart has only lived in Colorado for a short time. Dominick has made some costly gaffes A few days after Nixon resigned, he dismissed Watergate as "insignificant." In a jaundiced discussion of the United Nations, he remarked that Ugandans would "rather eat their own people than they would food." Better financed than Hart, Dominick is planning a last-minute TV blitz, it will have to be explosive to save his seat...
...guiding North Carolina through a pe riod of racial tension but also in attracting an impressive influx of industry-an achievement that helped earn him the Commerce post in John Kennedy's Cabinet. With characteristic vigor, he promoted exports to Communist countries, arguing: "Sell them anything they can eat, drink or smoke...
...present century, Oliver Wendell Holmes's legal opinions are preserved as models of lucidity for undergraduates writing essays on admissions applications. T.S. Eliot articulated the equivocations that would plague a later generation when he inquired, "Do I dare top eat a peach?" And John Kennedy, a paragon of the man holding the reigns of power, advocated no starry-eyed idealism but a more tangible ethic that sanctioned the sending of troops to Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs...