Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the eat-'em-ups and the slash-'em-ups proving by good grosses that there is plenty of room at the bottom (said one flabbergasted distributor: "I don't get it; I can't even stand to look at the stills"), the next step in low, lowbrow cinema was a marriage of the undead with the underdone: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Herman Cohen; American-International). Plot synopsis: a mad psychiatrist turns a sensitive adolescent into a hairy, ravening beast. Says 30-year-old Producer Cohen: "I heard that 62% of the movie audience...
...Senators were going to live better. Cried Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who hopes that the bill will improve the Senate restaurant: "Hundreds of hours every day in this capitol are wasted by officials who are paid $22,500 a year, standing in line to get something to eat, as if they were in Moscow, queued up to get a yoyo. And when one does eat, one is packed closer than Norwegian sardines in a Bolivian...
...Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democrats carried their election campaign into industrial Essen, Adenauer had the sausages on his side. Wily Campaigner Adenauer talked of sausages, and brought his audience rising with cheers to their feet when he told them just how much more fat sausage they eat in free-enterprising West Germany than in Socialist Sweden or Denmark...
...oyome-san is not a happy one. She must be first to rise, must cook for the whole family, may eat herself only after everyone else has finished. She is seldom if ever permitted even to accompany her husband when he goes calling, and if she does must arrive unobtrusively and much later than her husband. Oyome-san comes last even in the order of the bath, and has to wash the tub rings left by everyone else when she is through...
...forehead as he stole a shy half-glance at the strangers. Abruptly, like a swimmer surfacing for a gasp of air, he got up, grabbed his drink and pivoted toward an untenanted dining area in the rear, taking his tablemates in tow with the muttered words: "Let's eat in the back and get away from these people...