Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dams, new roads, new schools. The number of schoolrooms has increased tenfold since war's end; the death rate is down to less than 40% of prewar. Many Okinawans who once existed exclusively on a sweet-potato diet have climbed a rung on the Oriental living scale and eat rice. "Before the war, only section chiefs and above in the government wore shoes," says one Okinawan. "Now everybody has a pair." The Colonial Business. Without anyone really intending it that way, the U.S. has been thrust into the colonial business. It has taken on 790,000 wards...
...night. His tippling could easily have caused cirrhosis of the liver Even Sir Toby Belch, no pathologist but a fellow tosspot, suspected this: "For Andrew, if he were opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy." A cirrhotic liver is relatively bloodless...
...Hitler Youth leader-I celebrated my 19th birthday there-it did not help much either. I'll always be grateful for the Marshall Plan aid because it saved my little brother's life and millions of Germans from starvation. But by giving a man enough to eat, you don't convince him of Democracy . . . Only the people of Moral Re-Armament-through their lives-showed us what is right . . . And the faith in God I found through Moral Re-Armament made me immune from any materialistic ideology-Naziism or Communism . . . Therefore I would gladly travel by bicycle...
...joke. He pads it out with jabs at bureaucratese ("It's going to take front-office to front-office noodling to get this concretized"), and spurts of sly wit ("Since it was only 8 a.m., it was too early to have a drink, so we were forced to eat on an empty stomach"). After a few more slapsticky twists of the plot, John Henry and Fairweather's friends triumph over Senator Ransom's "Neanderthal bloc," and Fort Knox seems well on its way to becoming the biggest compost heap in the world...
Pancho Lopez (Lalo Guerrero; Real), a parody in a Mexican accent that originated on the West Coast, has sold more than 200,000 records: Born in Chihuahua in 1903 On a serape out under a tree, He was so fat he could almost not see, He could eat 12 tacos when he was only three ! Pancho, Pancho Lopez, the pride of old Mexico...