Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closeted in a projection room to edit film for one already in work. At the end of a routine day's conferring, writing, filming or reporting, he must also make his nightly radio deadline-"This [pause] is the news." Murrow has little interest in food ("He could eat scrambled eggs three times a day," says an associate), gets four or five hours sleep a night, manages at best two weekends out of three with his wife Janet and his son Charles Casey, 12, at his 280-acre farm at Pawling, N.Y., close by the estates of his occasional golfing...
...iron and steel mill. He died before his plans could be carried out, but three years later, in 1907, his sons started such a mill. Informed of their plans, Sir Frederick Upcott, chairman of the board of Indian Railways, said that Indians were incapable of making steel, swore to eat every pound of rail produced. When British banks refused to finance the Tatas, they turned to their own people. Shopkeepers and maharajas stood in line to invest the fabulous...
...paid the wages of sin. More precisely, something goes wrong from the beginning, and it is Actor Palance. This performer has made his reputation by the portrayal of violent emotion, and this state of spirit he portrays most vividly. Indeed, he seems unable to portray anything else. Does he eat a sandwich? No, he tears it to pieces like a starved piranha. As Palance plays his parts, it becomes increasingly difficult to decide which is the sane brother and which the crazy one. In any case, if there is anything more depressing than Actor Palance...
...would then make his afternoon delivery, and go home at 5 p.m. Nowadays he must be at the post office at 6:15 a.m. and work until 2:45 p.m. with a half hour off for lunch. "You're supposed to sit on the curbstone and eat your lunch," he laments. He also must get up at 5 in the morning, which means he goes to bed at 9 every night so he can get enough rest...
...tray; Faubus peered distastefully at the stewed chicken and rice. "Put that rice in a bowl," snapped he, "so I can put some milk on it." But this, protested Alta Faubus, was what the doctor had ordered. "I don't care!" cried Faubus. "I won't eat it! If you won't get me a bowl of rice and milk, I'll go get it myself." Alta Faubus shrugged, left, returned with the rice and milk. Faubus wolfed it down, milk dribbling down his chin. Then Orval Eugene Faubus, 36th governor of Arkansas, turned...