Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Red China was hit by crop failures, the Chinese have begun to slaughter sheep and yak herds for meat, forbade farmers to shear their sheep without permission or to eat animals that died of natural causes. Food rations have been cut to 16 Ibs. of grain per person a month. In many villages, the refugees reported, Tibetans have been reduced to eating grass weeds and wild tubers. Estimated deaths due to Tibet's enforced starvation diet...
...that the Balubas can sow the dry, sandy soil before the end of the planting season in February. But some of the starving tribesmen are too weak to bury their own dead, much less till the soil. Others are so hungry that they toss the hoes aside and simply eat the seed...
Toward her husband Jackie is equally protective. "When somebody cuts Jack, she is unforgiving," says Ethel. "She has an elephant's memory." When Kennedy's political activities began to mount, Jackie worried "because he never would eat lunch, and kept getting thinner." One day her butler turned up in Jack's office with a hamper, expertly laid out a gleaming white cloth on his desk, then served a savory hot lunch in a baby's hot plate, "the kind you eat to the bottom and find a bunny rabbit." Impressed, Jack began to invite friends...
...Yorker several years ago depicting the grand council of a cannibal tribe seated around a fire. The chief was explaining: "We send out word that we're in a state of ferment. The Russians send technicians. Then the Americans send technicians. . . . When they're all here, we eat them...
...keep tabs on employees who were only occasionally late, just to catch the few consistently late arrivers whose habits would be known to supervisors anyway. He silenced the jangling bell in employees' canteens that announced when lunch periods were over, letting clerks decide among themselves when to eat, thus checking on each other. Thick manuals that covered what to do in any situation were tossed out, replaced by one slim book...