Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemplation would usually find themselves turning mattresses for the sick in hospitals. One woman (he was not partial to women since one had tried to seduce him ) complained to Philip that she was covered with lice from her hospital work, and his response was to tell her to eat one of them. He loved to lead pilgrimages to Rome's seven basilicas, and they took on the quality of gay outings, complete with plenty of food and wine, in which nobles rubbed shoulders with peasants and workmen, and the saint's pet cat went along in a basket...
...department's first finds was an invalid's food called Sustagen. A mix of skim-milk powder, soybean flour, corn oil, minerals and vitamins, Sustagen was designed for hospital patients unable to eat solid foods. It worked so well at giving patients the illusion of having eaten a solid meal and killing off between-meal hunger pangs that last year Mead Johnson decided to call it Metrecal and put it out as a weight-reducing food. The chief change was to recommend a limit of 900 calories (i.e., one 8-oz. can, dry weight) of Metrecal...
...remotest villages of the Marches there was often nothing to eat but hard bread, onions and anchovies, but every morning I awoke to a glamorous adventure, tasted the freshness of a spring or autumn morning in the Bergamesque valley as if it were a deliciously inviting draught. Each alterpiece in its place in the cool or warm but penumbral light of a church I enjoyed like the satisfaction of a vow, and it remained fixed in memory as a crystalline individuality... Its overtones lingered in recollection and its taste on the palate...
...totally new chemicals are introduced each year. They kill bugs, clean carpets, run automobiles and wash dishes. Some of them even fight disease. But when their usefulness is ended, they often find their way-as waste-into the air people breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. Often invisible and immune to bacteriological attack, they damage plants, kill fish, slip undetected through sewage-treatment plants, and blanket entire cities with clouds of noxious vapor. Some, like sulphur dioxide, are clearly toxic-memorably so in the five-day siege of sulphurous smog in Donora...
...alien and a spy, prying into the lives of an "undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings." He tried to find at least partial absolution in sleeping in beds that swarmed with fleas, lice and bedbugs, gasping through the offal stench, and ignoring his nausea to "eat for a few weeks what a million people spend their lives eating...