Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour through the rice belt south of the 17th parallel, Premier Ngo Dinh Diem last week got his second big ovation from his people. Rice growers thronged around him, beating gongs; soldiers competed to eat at his table; refugees chaired him around their hovels in informal marches of triumph. Diem took his reception spiritedly, with none of his celebrated reticence, enjoying crayfish that had been smuggled south to him from the Communist North, and a Confucian ballet performed by 32 silk-clad girls. Diem also impressed the villagers by his coolness when his ceremonial barge, overloaded with admirers who clambered...
...Deputy Prime Minister has his ornithological facts wrong: butcherbirds (shrikes) do not eat worms, nor do they eat and run. Instead, it is their practice to impale insects, field mice and small birds on thorns, and later return to the natural larder to eat at leisure...
...standard methods of treatment had failed. Like many severe-burn victims, a group of patients at Dallas' Parkland Hospital morosely refused to eat or to exercise, cried out for narcotics, and suffered from skin grafts that would not heal. For lack of nutrition, the men's wounds were getting worse instead of better. Then a five-man team * from the University of Texas' Southwestern Medical School decided to try age-old, much-debated therapeutic gimmick-hypnosis...
...with second-degree burns covering 45% of his body surface, had undergone several unsuccessful skin grafts in 18 months, went from 130 to 90 Ibs. because of refusal to eat properly. Skin infections and contractures (contracted-burn scar tissue) made it difficult for him to move his limbs and neck. Within a few days after hypnosis began, he was taking 4,200 calories per day, became cheerful and cooperative. Thanks to improved diet, skin grafts began to "take." Twelve weeks later, B. W., healed, walked out of the hospital...
...banquet was held in honor of King Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales; boxing matches and dice games were not uncommon. The menu was unappealing, however: four dollars weekly for "fish, eggs, and dessert, with meat extra." Such fare drove many students to other places to eat, and 1925 saw the last scrambled eggs in Memorial Hall. Experimental mice in the University's Psychological Laboratories now scurry through the old basement kitchen...