Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wife, both employees of the Kerala state government at a combined wage of $84 per month, well above India's average, these days are forced to halve the family's milk consumption, cut out eggs entirely, and stretch the supply of rice by eating it in the form of soupy gruel. A Calcutta schoolteacher who makes $55 gives his children two meals a day, but can afford to eat only once daily himself. Worse off still is the hapless Bombay textile mill worker, who must overspend by $6 monthly and make up his deficit by borrowing from money...
...near famine of the early '60s. Sugar and wheat are still rationed, but ice cream and cakes are plentiful and cheap, and the stalls at the central markets are banked high with ornamental heaps of vegetables, meat, tiny eggs and fish. "China has not forgotten how to eat," one tourist was told by his guide. Nor has it forgotten how to cook-for those who can pay for it. The once-great cuisine of Peking has slipped, but French TV Commentator Maurice Werther, who traveled 10,000 miles during six weeks in China, would still give even tourist-hotel...
...paraphrase the grammar school boff, what are they going to eat in the House of Lords? They won't be able to eat the Sandwiches there any more, because the tenth earl and great-great-great-great-grandnephew of the 18th century titleholder who invented layered lunch has renounced his lordship, like other Tory leaders. He will seek election to the House of Commons as just plain Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu...
...studying film production by making a 7½-minute documentary called The Rise and Fall of the American Breast-"a serious critique of America's fetish about female bosoms." Stanford is also giving eight-week crash courses in Chinese and Japanese, in which students are required to converse, eat and drink in the style of the language they are studying-or at least try. "I'm going to hwei-jya, change my yi-shang, jump in my chi-che and pick up my syau-jye for the dyan-yingr" said a beginner in Chinese.("I'm going...
...reason the obese subjects did not respond normally and automatically to the stomach's signals, say the psychiatrists, could probably be traced to deep emotional problems. Eating had become, for them, "a matter of conscious and desperate choice at meal after meal." Many admitted that it had been years since they could trust their senses as to how much to eat. So they ate heavily and did not know when to stop. All of which points up a new problem: how to retrain these fat people to eat on signal-and only on signal...