Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kadar's efforts to rally the country behind him have not been a stunning success, but at least the people are quiet. Said a veteran of the Budapest revolt: "You agree to work for the Reds so you can live, so your wife can eat and your children can get an education. You try not to think about it too much." But if the people were tamely cooperative, the local Communist functionaries grew bitter at their downgrading and longed for the old days of bulletheaded Matyas Rakosi and Erno Gero, who as party leaders in 1956 had invited...
...emergencies, they need special techniques for artificial respiration-as was demonstrated at Memphis by a volunteer who wore a plastic bag over his head, and snugged tight around his neck, for half an hour. But they can eat and drink normally and do practically everything that they could do before the operation-except swim, since they cannot close that hole in the neck. One other exception, notes Manhattan's Speech Therapist John McClear wistfully, is that they cannot play a wind instrument. McClear used to play the saxophone...
...means senile counterfeiter a quarter share in the enterprise. "Two million dollars. Split it four ways and what have you got?" the brothelkeeper purrs. "Twenty years," Le Dab snorts, and demands half the loot. Slyly the three little pigs pretend to give in, but secretly they plan to eat high on the wolf before the deal is done. Or will the wolf make a meal of singed pork? Or will the censor insist on cooked goose...
...duty, the Chinese keep strictly to themselves. They eat in a separate dining room at the Italian-built Dajti Hotel, live in a parklike embassy compound that is constantly surrounded by guards. The latest status symbols in Tirana, worn by Albanian Communist officials who have journeyed to Red China, are a plain beige cloth cap of the type preferred by Mao Tse-tung, and aviator-type dark sunglasses, also the rage in Peking...
...simple man," says portly Jack Cotton, 59, drawing deeply on an eight-inch Havana. "All my life I've done nothing but eat, sleep and think property." He has plenty of property to think about. As chairman of London's City Centre Properties Ltd., he owns or manages office buildings, apartments, hotels and shopping centers in 268 British cities and 13 countries, collecting $17 million a year in rents...