Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brow and defined the difference between life in Europe and in the U.S.: "In America, it's 30 minutes for lunch, hurry, make money, conduct your business in a hurry, make money, be progressive, get an ulcer, but make money. In Europe, it's enjoy yourself, eat, drink and be merry, let things wait, enjoy yourself...
...upon these figures that William Vogt (Road to Survival, TIME, Nov. 8, 1948) and Fairfield Osborn (Our Plundered Planet) based predictions of mass starvation. Last week, however, the world learned that the neo-Malthusians were wrong: mankind, more numerous than ever before, had more to eat than ever before.* The rate of increase of the production of food now exceeds the rate of increase of the free world population...
...plane-but they were spending less. The time when the $30,000-a-week headline act made economic sense as a loss leader because it lured customers to gamble was changing. More and more people were going to the hotels to watch the high-priced floor show, eat the $2 steak dinner, enjoy the elegant $8-a-day hotel room, and maybe drop a few token coins in the slot machines (5% profit for the house). Last June most of the hotels were forced to alter a longstanding policy, and charge a $2 minimum for the midnight supper shows that...
...Mexico City, a friend asked President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines: "What is your greatest single problem?" The President smiled wryly. "It is the great problem of Mexico," he said. "Look out that window and you will see Mexicans living in shacks, with nothing to eat but tortillas, with no shoes, no education for their children, no hope but one. That hope is that their President will somehow make things better for them...
...snake gladdened my heart.") More than once, Paul dined on pigeons caught on his boardinghouse roof, and when a course in histology required him to provide microscopic slides of guinea-pig tissue, he saw no reason to throw away the remains of the animals. He would cook and eat them. "If it breathed, it had protein, and if it had protein...