Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there were words to eat, even if the chewing noises could not be heard in the general congratulations. Five years ago, when Britain abandoned its Suez base and retreated to Cyprus, a Tory minister assured everyone that Cyprus would "never" be released to independence. The Conservatives had also argued in the past that Greece and Turkey should have no say in the solution of a problem that, after all, concerned a British crown colony. Yet here were the British accepting the terms of a settlement handed down by the Greeks and Turks, ending British rule in a British colony...
...sang with it. The streets of Kingston were thronged with piping vendors or politicians drumming up a vote in the lilting singsong of the islands. It was "a groovy time. I was a great night gazer. I used to climb up in a mango tree and lie back and eat mangoes and look through the leaves...
...course of their study, the Hollywood sociologists have also investigated a specific minority group, the Italian Americans, and have reached some unshakable conclusions: 1) many of them speak broken English, 2) most of them eat spaghetti, 3) some of them grow up to be gangsters. As a matter of fact, that is what the heroine (Sophia Loren), the widow of a racketeer, is afraid her son will do. The boy is only twelve years old, and already he has been caught tampering with a parking meter and sent off to a work farm. The hero (Anthony Quinn), a well-preserved...
...triumph. Under the pressure of crowded schedules, well-known writers and statesmen can not stay as long as they--or the Masters--would like. "It takes a Harvard bunch four or five days to get to know anyone," observed Master Perkins, and unless a visitor can do more than eat and run, "it seems a little excessive to pay his travel expenses and a generous honorarium just to let students shake his hand." However, as Finley pointed out, a visitor "can either spread himself hopelessly thin, or he can meet more fully with a few people." Eliot House takes...
...Church, thanks to what they consider a special gift from God: peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee), a small cactus growing in the valley of the Rio Grande. The Indians of the Native American Church, 46 tribes in the West and Canada, cut off and dry the cactus tops, then eat the "buttons" in nightlong ceremonies to the accompaniment of sacred fire and chanting. A derivative called mescaline, subject of experiment by psychiatric researchers and mystical dabblers, including Aldous (The Doors of Perception) Huxley, produces in devotees a vivid immediacy of experience that the Indians consider far superior to the liturgy...