Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tanzan Ishibashi, 72, oaken-faced Minister of International Trade and Industry. With no real dispute about policy between them, all vied in vowing to "clean up the party and restore ethics," and boasted of their health. Kishi pointed out that he was the youngest; Ishibashi crowed that "I can eat and drink anything," and that he sleeps well. Amidst reports of big bribes being offered for votes, Prime Minister Hatoyama hobbled, stiff-legged and leaning on an aide's shoulder, to the microphone, and asked for "a clean election...
...Friendly Bean." The Hoppers go miles out of their way to get gas a fraction of a cent cheaper; they have never bought a new car. They eat out a great deal-at lunch counters. Yet they are open-handed with friends needing help, and on occasion they do spend folding money for themselves; e.g., Mrs. Hopper insists on her husband's wearing elegant sports clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch, though he complains that he doesn't "want to look like a damned hero." And when they bought their 1954 Buick, Hopper had the perfectly good green-tinted glass...
Other leaders: ABC-Paramount, Cricket. Peter Pan. The basic types of children's records-called "kidisks" by Billboard: ¶ Stories with music, usually a familiar fairy tale with its teeth pulled: e.g., the wolf doesn't eat Little Red Riding Hood; Snow White's stepmother sends her to the woods, but not to be executed. ¶ Pop songs with a "kiddie beat." i.e., reduced intensity, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Sixteen Tons, its lyrics altered to explain that coal is mined so that houses can be heated. ¶ Educational or uplift records such...
This results in a radical modification of the eating habits of the animals. Some of the rats suddenly stop eating almost completely, wasting away into emaciated skeletons; others eat constantly and bloat themselves to twice their normal size...
...National Association of Manufacturers met in Manhattan last week, their avowed theme was the "new dimensions" beckoning the modern businessman. But most of the N.A.M.'s attention was devoted to such perennial targets as union activity ("encroachment on individual rights") and big government ("The termites of welfare statism eat out the foundations of our society"). When it came to exploring the new dimensions, most of the talent was imported...