Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebels need the support of all honest nations." Inferring a U.S. threat to cut off $140 million a year in aid to Egypt (mostly surplus wheat, corn and frozen chickens), Nasser waxed indignant: "We drink tea seven days a week now: we can cut it to five. We eat meat four days; we can cut it to three. We are people of dignity, and do not accept disdain from anyone." His own tongue somewhat carried away, Egypt's strongman vowed to "cut off the tongue" of anyone who voices "words against...
Egyptians can now afford to eat more than their farmers can produce. Demand for food has been twice as great as expected, and consumption of imported meat has soared 58%. Prices have spiraled, the black market flourishes and queues for food are an everyday sight in Cairo. Last week, faced with the unpleasant fact that a measure of austerity is the inescapable price of a crash development scheme, the government took the drastic step of banning the slaughter and sale of meat three days out of each week. It's back to corn and beans for the Egyptians...
...cigarette accidentally left on the couch started the fire after Peter Johnson '68 and Bob Easton '68 went out to get something to eat, Johnson said. They woke the third roommate, Joseph Cantrick '68, and called the fire department when they returned and found the couch burning...
...tonight, Dec. 8, 518 girls have chosen well ahead of time not to eat dinner, and to send the money to Mississippi. Those who wanted to fast, and thus contribute, placed their names in little paper bags--so there was secret balloting and no one was "pressured" into publicly signing up. Those who do not fast will be served a hot meal, so that they are not "punished" for lack of participation. And everyone lives happily ever after. However--there is a slight discrepancy between the $1.30 per person charged for dinner, and the 50 cents being sent to Miss...
...often ushered in by violence. But the 1947-49 Greek civil war seemed to him beyond all reason. "The criminals have cut Greece in two, as if she were not alive," cries the priest-hero of his last novel. "And each piece has gone mad and wants to eat the other. I stand alone, deserted, and no matter whose corpse I see, my heart aches; because I see a part of Greece rotting." Kazantzakis' The Fratricides is a frantic, sometimes bombastic book, more sermon than novel, written, as it were, at the top of his voice...