Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guided democracy" (TIME, March 4), said scathingly: "Guided democracy is fascism. I have become aware that the present government under Your Excellency's leadership will eventually destroy the nation . . . Believe me, the government prohibition against barter trade will not be heeded. How can people be "forbidden to eat rice obtained from barter if rice from [the government stores] is not forthcoming...
...spate of rumors that he is in bad shape. A member of his household had explained Sir Winston's absence by pointing out that Churchill was "rather tired." A swift investigation by newsmen showed that Statesman Churchill is energetic enough to paint, read, play gin rummy and eat zestfully, in a packed vacation schedule. Sample lunch: hors d'oeuvres, duck with olives, French pastries, champagne, two cognacs topped off by two cigars. Churchill also drove 22 miles to dine with a Riviera neighbor, Author W. Somerset Maugham, 84, last week. Maugham observed his birthday by making his perennial...
...self up, he is so busy experimenting. Usually single-if married not many kids, if any. But a real brain. Doesn't hardly ever go to bed." "I believe," said one student, "the typical scientist would stay in his little laboratory most of the time except to eat and go to conventions...
Clearance Sale. In Milwaukee, taking advantage of a drugstore's offer of "all the chicken you can eat for 99?," John Lietz, 43, polished off four platefuls, called the cops when he was refused more, ended up downing eleven orders in all, explained: "I'm just a bargain hunter...
...celluloid rubble of Novelist Hayes's Hollywood ("to see or be seen ... to eat or be eaten") seems unreal. And his people, though carefully and competently labeled, are also carefully unexplored, as if he were afraid that the characters, if given life, would twist out of control. But Hayes is tellingly accurate about the emotions of bored bed partners who do not even 'like each other, and sometimes eloquent about the vacant longings of pretty, light-dazzled girls: "If they expected her to resist, or any of the girls like her, then it would have been wiser...