Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, not many of the Greek repatriates actually went home. Most of their villages were destroyed in the war. They are billeted in Epirus and Macedonia, which are two of the poorest regions in a poor country. The repatriates have not enough to eat, and no employment. Under their Communist masters, they were adequately clothed and housed and fed so long as they worked hard and did not rebel. In advanced countries like Czechoslovakia, some had also learned trades which, in northern Greece, they cannot...
...mechanization has enlarged the output and the purchasing power of our people, it has also multiplied enormously their demand for services. So they, in their turn, employ more doctors and dentists, more engineers and scientists, and more teachers and clergymen. They send out more of their laundry, and they eat more often in restaurants. Even the fact that they have more leisure time has created more jobs for others...
Terms of the suspension forbade the students either to attend class or eat in the dining rooms. The banishment was left incomplete. The banishment was left incomplete, however, as the punished freshmen were permitted to enter their rooms. They were also allowed to use the library facilities, and finally...
...Americans call it rancid butter. Indians call it ghee (as in Fibber McGee), and they love it. They make it by boiling the milk of water buffalo, letting it cool, adding sour milk to make it curdle faster, then straining off the butter oil, which is the ghee. They eat it. spread it on sores, and anoint holy images with...
...went to work as an office boy at the" American Woolen Co. for $2.50 a week, rose to become vice president at more than $100,000 a year. A man who has been known to raise as much as $2,000,000 at a single banquet ("I always eat at home first"), he has had a career that equals anything in Horatio Alger. He has turned down the chance to run for mayor, comptroller, president of the city council, president of the borough of Manhattan, and lieutenant governor; he has served as president, vice president, overseer, trustee, director, or board...