Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanleyville, just before the rebels took it, he told a crowd: "You tell me you don't have enough to eat. But I see you drinking beer at 9 o'clock in the morning. First work, then drink your beer." Africans respect a winner, and so Tshombe banked on his firm stand against the rebels in Stanleyville. If he succeeds, the Congo could become a watershed in the history of emerging Africa. For five years, African politicians have indiscriminately whiplashed the Western world while glorifying themselves with such airy phrases as "African personality" and "African socialism." Tshombe-that...
...with blood and bruises. Then we were marched outside, told to strip off all our clothes, and ordered to sit down." Naked, the nuns were beaten fiercely, locked up without food and clothing for 24 hours in a small room. "Again and again they promised to kill us or eat us alive or throw us into the river in sacks...
...stage for the finale. Jack was urging his orchestra on, Philip was blocking from the back of the hall, and Sandy was yelling at a boy who had neglected to find some workers to raise the stage. The residents of Leverett House had come out of their rooms to eat. The Kitchen staff was watching intently as the orchestra played louder and louder...
...teacher goes behind a screen and asks children to identify the sound of a bouncing ball, an egg beater, a newspaper being crumpled. Pupils smell fruits and flowers, classify objects according to texture, distinguish shapes, care for pets. They even are assigned rudimentary homework: "Take this pear home. Eat it and bring back the seeds tomorrow...
This announcement, in which one of the best U.S. authors now active contrives to sound like a ten-year-old refusing to eat his dinner, is followed by a tasteful discussion of John O'Hara's very large income. The effect is that of a wealthy car dealer boasting in the locker room of the second-best country club in Gibbsville...