Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the Chinese go about cleaning up a city, they go at it with a vengeance. Flies used to be so numerous in Packing that you couldn't eat a piece of watermelon in the street without brushing them off between bites. A campaign was organized in which everyone took part. Even grade school in matchboxes and counted. The result: Peking is now free of flies...
...years later the government proclaimed a national campaign to exterminate sparrows, one of the "four pests," (they eat many times their weight in grain each day) and Peking did its part in a one-day all-out effort. Early in the morning, the whole population started making noise and shooing sparrows. Every-where in the city, the sight of a single sparrow on a rooftop or in a tree was the signal for a tumult of shout, gongs and tin cans...
...Memorial at Aqueduct, Wheatley Stable's Trainer Bill Winfrey pointed gaily to the magnificent shiner that one of his horses had given him when it kicked him in the barn. "Tell you what I'll do," he said. "If they beat our Bold Lad, I'll eat the steak I've been wearing...
...like to eat...
...overeat when other outlets for strong emotion are thwarted. I eat to punish myself. I eat to stop time, to avoid responsibility. I eat when I am unhappy. I eat when I am lonely. I eat when I am unloved...