Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a lot of education to convince most citizens (including T.R.) that good food could turn to poison. One such educator was a testy Department of Agriculture chemist. Dr. Harvey Washington ("Old Borax") Wiley, who got a volunteer "poison squad" to eat spoiling food, triumphantly proved that it made them miserably sick. In The Jungle, Muckraker Upton Sinclair rubbed the nation's nose in the filth of Chicago packing plants. On June 30, 1906, Teddy Roosevelt rode to the Capitol and ceremoniously signed the first U.S. Food and Drugs Act, to protect the people's stomach from willful...
...site of the Capricorn Africa Society's first convention was proof of the difficulties they face. In order to ensure that its 150 delegates could talk, eat and live together, the Capricorn Society took over the site of an abandoned British hotel on the lake, hundreds of miles from a major white settlement. There workers constructed a small city-Capricorntown-complete with refurbished hotel, thatched huts, marked-off lanes, a huge grass-thatched bwalo (meeting hall) and symmetrical rows of small tents...
...this the music of the future? Stockhausen, who is so immersed that he tends to forget to eat and shave, replies with a shrug: "It has little popular appeal. But that also goes for the conventional music that I compose...
leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again, oh, what
...trade against the encroaching North West Company-or "pedlars," as they are called by Hudson Bay's old guard-and H.B.'s head man, Lord Selkirk, a contemptible character who weighs only 110 Ibs. While brooding on his diet ("In a day or two he intended to eat an entire raw liver, for he had been feeling groggy lately; a straight meat diet was getting him down"), David manages to get himself tied up to a tree while a squaw supervises a small Indian boy in cutting off one of his thumbs. He gets free, of course...