Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...robe and carrying a box of cereal. "Well," she asks in a tone polite but indifferent, "would you like some breakfast? Let's see, about all we have is..."--she peers at the cover of the cereal box--"Fruit Loops." She lets out a yawn. "Sit down and eat some Fruit Loops." And we watch as Bill, so banged up he is barely able to move, his eyes heavy with beer and exhaustion, sits down with a spoon in his hand and begins to eat his Fruit Loops...
...suggest...there is little question that Mr. Ford brings a dogged determination to the Oval Office. From the playing fields of Ann Arbor to the grinding hours he logged in Air Force Two serving the Republican party and defending its leader, Mr. Ford has displayed enduring grit." ("Let them eat grit," Marie Antoinette once said...
...They would just kill and eat each other." Spinola himself had advocated a kind of federation that would give the overseas territories a wide measure of autonomy but keep them under the Portuguese flag...
Last week Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz suggested facetiously that the U.S. might save food by killing half of its dogs and cats. Said Butz in a speech to the American Society of Animal Science: "If some of those ill-informed, fuzzy-thinking do-gooders who suggest that we eat one less hamburger per week to release more foodstuffs to the world are really serious ... they could make the first onslaught on this noble goal by reducing our dog and cat population by 50%." Of course, Butz added, "I do not advocate such a thing...
Frost owned a succession of farms in Vermont; during the winter he lived in Boston and later in Cambridge. He was a "halfway farmer," although the half sometimes got out of hand-as when in 1940 it became necessary to eat outdoors at Frost's Ripton, Vt, farm because he had installed a tribe of 100 baby chicks in his kitchen. Eventually a way of life worked itself out: Frost allowed Kathleen Morrison and her husband (then director of the Breadloaf Writers Conference) to live summers in the Ripton farmhouse while the poet moved to a nearby cabin during...