Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both men agree on the different eating habits of the two campaign parties. "In three weeks' campaigning with Dick Nixon, I put on six pounds," laments Meyers. "In five days with Jack Kennedy-including two days of 'rest'-I lost 2½." Sidey's statistics: 8 lbs. lost with Kennedy, three regained with Nixon. The explanation is a matter of scheduling: Nixon campaigns just as hard as Kennedy, but his stops are spaced between long plane hops, which give the press ample time to eat and write; Kennedy travels in short flights, is always behind schedule...
...thoroughly mediocre harvest, the Chinese Communists seemed to be preparing their hungry people for the worst harvest since they took over in 1949. Already cut to a daily ration of 1,750 calories, Chinese commune workers were being admonished by mess-hall signs: "It is glorious to eat less than one's food ration...
...coach's voice thundered across the practice field: "Baby, have you got a play book?'' The halfback, who had just forgotten his blocking assignment, nodded guiltily. "Well," came the coach's cry, "when you go to eat. take it with you. When you go to the toilet, take it with you. When you go to see your girl, take it with...
...that having satisfied the requirements of tradition, the author provides a gentle but undeluded view of her villagers. The priest, Father Roque, is a good but henpecked man who, when vexed, is fond of wondering how his idol, Cardinal Spellman, would deal with his parishioners. "Oh, Lord, let her eat fewer raw onions, let her abstain from onions, let her learn to abhor them," he implores, after listening in tears to his harridan of a housekeeper. Among Father Roque's other trials are an arrogant matron who will not bathe ("Imagine finding yourself naked in a puddle of water...
...course there will be a world revolution . . . Let me warm up something for you to eat," said Granny...