Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When people lose all desire to eat, for no apparent physical or emotional cause, doctors call it anorexia nervosa (nervous lack of appetite). For three generations they have argued about how best to treat it, with recent opinion favoring an analytic type of psychiatry. Now in the British Medical Journal, a brusque, no-nonsense Welshman indicates that it is time to boot the psychiatrists out and pump the patient full of food. His simple reasoning: the only treatable aspect of the baffling disorder is starvation, and the cure for starvation is food...
What awaits the summer student as he groggily stifles the alarm and stumbles out of bed? His stomach groans in protest of its fourteen hour fast. Food . . . must get something to eat...
...Moscow when the union was proclaimed, the Communist newspaper Al Noor still publishes the Red line. And Damascus Radio echoes it. Sample broadcast about Lebanon: "The U.S. has taken off the fancy dress hiding her real identity as a slippery snake trying to emit poison, suck blood and eat human flesh...
...society is a man-eat-man thing on every possible level," says Writer Rod Serling, 33, and his tough, uncompromising television plays (Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight, The Comedian) reflect this belief. So does his professional life. He has contended with networks, ad agencies and sponsors over what he could say, scrapped with directors over how to say it, become TV's most outspoken authority on the devious ways of television censorship. But short (5 ft. 5 in.) Author Serling is more in demand than any other playwright in the TV business, was recently corralled...
...their houses and took their serfs with them to the East. Napoleon snapped: "Do you think I have come all this way just to conquer these huts?" The Russians were inspired-not by liberty-but by what was literally a holy horror of the French; they would not even eat from a plate a Frenchman had touched. When they were brought to battle, they presented "inert masses" to the French artillery until the gunners themselves stopped, aghast at their slaughter. It had become a war of icon and tricolor. Ségur records his disillusion: "It was no longer...