Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ocean Club overlooking Bermuda's blue-green waters, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan planned to eat together, drink together, perhaps golf together for four days. These old friends of World War II days (when Macmillan was British Resident Minister at Ike's Algiers headquarters) had no formal agenda but much on their minds. Their main problem was to reestablish, between two nations, the working relationship that was shaken by Britain's decision to throw in with France and Israel on Suez...
...with a wife and two boys to support, it was quite a decision. Bix bluntly told his wife and family, "how we'd always be broke, how we'd not have enough to eat. how we'd never take any vacation trips." He might have added, had he known the figures, that even if he made the grade by the fall of 1957, his starting salary as a teacher ($3,700) would be nearly $250 less than he would be making as a janitor. But Charlotte Bixby encouraged him to go ahead. While hanging...
...Rubber will spoil taste. Never make love with pants on. Never sleep in moonlight. Known by scientists to induce madness . . . Never wear red necktie. Provide light snorts for ladies if entertaining. Effects of harder stuff on frail sex sometimes disastrous. Bathe in cold water every morning. Painful but exhilarating . . . Eat fresh fish for breakfast. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust...
Worse than crop damage is the annoyance. Their mounds, thickly set in hay or grain fields, damage mowing and harvesting machines. They get into fodder and sting the cattle that try to eat it or the humans that handle it. In places where they are thick, farmers cannot get laborers to work in the fields. In suburbs they pock lawns with their mounds, bite children playing on the grass...
Gophers have dirty teeth, yellow bottoms, and thirteen stripes of a width-wise sort. They dig holes that trip cattle and eat grain, which aggravates farmers. They also incurred the enmity of Senator Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon, as if they didn't have enough trouble with nasty little men who pump bisulphide of carbon into their burrows. But at least these men make no pretensions about their aims, while Senator Neuberger has a sneaky, insidious scheme for annihilation...