Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...helped to her feet. When the last curtsy was dropped, the marquis flung his cloak off to preside in a gold union suit at the presentation of 21 "tableaux," which were watched with considerable interest, if only because of the fact that nobody was allowed to eat or drink until they were over...
...resemblance to the old-fashioned U.S. caricature of a barefoot peon on burro-back as Ruiz Cortines does to Pancho Villa. They are a people who have moved out of the adobe huts into the main stream of urban life. They include professional men trained in modern universities. They eat bread instead of tortillas (thereby creating a brand-new demand for wheat that threatens to shake the country's immemorial corn monoculture). They give their children a good education; they live in houses with hot water and plumbing; they own cars. And they have taken to spending their vacations...
...Good Luck. In Bakersfield, Calif., two prison-farm inmates were charged with assault & battery after the superintendent reported that they had burned the hair off Prisoner Frank McKee's head, forced him to eat grape stems and cigarette butts, struck him with a horseshoe...
...time and the war went on, money and food became scarcer. At one time Audrey's family had nothing to eat for days but endive. "I swore I'd never eat it again as long as I lived," she says. The hungry days in Holland gave her a taste for rich pastries and chocolate that is still unsatisfied...
Food. "It's impossible to eat enough of what one likes...