Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Motorists driving north must now pass roadblocks where inspectors search cars for plants or fruit that might harbor Medflies. All such stuff is confiscated, but owners of fruit are allowed to pull over and eat their contraband. Human gastric juices kill Medfly larvae (one couple last week ate nine melons). Fruit not disposed of in this way is doused with insecticide and buried 3 ft. deep...
...love of freedom." In London a red-faced Colonial Office spokesman admitted that the four churchmen had gone on a one-day hunger strike at their villa. But the island governor, he said, had talked things over with Makarios "in a friendly way," and persuaded His Beatitude to eat his next meal...
...clash of strong cultures is likely to be a god-eat-god affair. Each may conceive the other as strange, wrongheaded, downright wicked. An individual caught up in such a conflict sees himself as a missioner to the heathen, clad in the righteous armor of the sole truth, his own. In this compact novel of grace and distinction, John (Hiroshima, The Wall) Hersey captures the essential pathos of such culture struggles, seeing them as encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades...
Twink and Mama Girl head for the bright lights of Manhattan, settle in servants' quarters at the Pierre Hotel, eat at the Automat, and feed the pigeons in Central Park. When Mama Girl's multimillionaire friend Gladys DuBarry, who suffers from "polio of the soulio," offers to house mother and daughter in a penthouse suite, Mama Girl proudly throws the DuBarry woman out on her earrings. But Mama Girl has to admit that all is not well: "I'm the most beautiful girl at every party; I meet all the producers and directors and writers and actors...
Like many of her sisters in what she bitterly refers to as the Second Sex, France's Simone de Beauvoir would rather talk than eat. Since she is the grande dame of French existentialism and all-round good friend of Jean-Paul Sartre who founded it, it goes without saying that there is a minimum of natter in her chatter. She can be wrongheaded, she can make ridiculous statements (America Day by Day; TIME, Dec. 14, 1953), but even her nonsense is the product of one of the sharpest and best-stocked minds in letters...