Word: eats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with a workhorse physique. He helps in the fields (sugar cane, turnips, potatoes) as little as he can. He and his wife live in separate conical houses. Daily, the woman cooks a thin soup of vegetables, sets it on a terrace outside her house, where her husband comes to eat. Nights, she lures him to lie down in the fields, threatening to cut off the soup if he refuses. To keep the nagging at a minimum, most Kogi men try to keep their women pregnant...
...Jefferson Junior High, Mr. Peepers wasted no time displaying his talent for creating minor disasters. He gestured with his hat, and promptly had it nailed to the wall by a busy carpenter; he scalped another teacher's toupee with his fork in a cafeteria, prepared to eat it, mumbling "I didn't order a salad." His most recent catastrophe: while manfully trying to retrieve a basketball, he falls into the hoop and gets wedged fast...
...bare mountainside building in the Salem* district of the Indian state of Madras, 35 Indian ascetics live and pray together. In the tradition of the Indian sanyasis (holy men), they wear coarse cotton robes dyed a bright saffron. At mealtimes they eat a strict vegetarian diet of tapioca, rice and lentils. When they chant their prayers, they sit cross-legged on the floor. They wear no shoes or sandals, for Indian custom forbids any footgear inside a holy place...
...Water's Fine. U.S. tourists are always calling the hospital to ask whether Paris water is safe to drink. (It is.) Also whether it is safe to eat such French dishes as frogs' legs, snails and mussels. (Usually...
...ahead "to be there when the boat rams that beach," hopes to accomplish a material and spiritual Point Four. Says he: "Hungry natives will listen to us about God if we can show them a field of grain with a combine harvesting more in a day than they can eat in a year...