Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...escort Nikita Khrushchev on his tour of France, became one of the few contenders to top Khrushchev in a proverb-spouting contest. The old adage (quoted by Dromio of Syracuse in Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors) that stopped Nikita: "He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil...
...national leadership of this great community of humane scholars. They, the hard-bitten agents of The Planaria Research Group--ominous appellation--will know long before our world-view-imbued scholiasts, whether it is that two-headed planaria exceed single-headed planaria in intelligence, why it is that planaria who eat educated planaria are themselves more speedily educable, whence it comes that poisoned planaria...
...become increasingly vocal in their doubts about the effectiveness of the liberation of Algeria. On the left, the extreme Socialists headed by Sartre have coined their theory of involution--that the violence of the Algerian war has infected and corrupted Metropolitan France. The group that has done most to eat away the confidence of France in her essential stability, however, is the Organization de l'Armee Secrete. It has been the basic purpose of the O.A.S. to alert the metropole to what it considers the real nature of the Algerian struggle, and to convince France that she is wrong...
Next to his work, which was turning out drawings and watercolors, Thomas Rowlandson liked to drink; and next to drinking, he liked to gamble. It was said of him that he once stood at a gaming table for nearly 36 hours without pausing to eat or sleep. He was apparently never very lucky, but that did not matter...
...rises abnormally fast in recoveries when production picks up more rapidly than hiring. But Government estimates of the long-term annual rise in steel productivity fall between 2.1% (for blue-collar workers only) and 1.8% (including white-collar workers). On that basis, one top steelmaker figures that "we can eat a 2% to 2½% yearly increase in labor costs without raising prices...