Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then paused in his hotel room long enough to mull over the script of the address he was to make on television that night. Later, he slipped upstairs to join 40 of his top campaign workers, who were just sitting down to dinner. Humphrey had no time to eat, left his followers with a fast pep talk. "Wisconsin, as you know, has been selected by the communications media as the battleground," he said. "This is the Madison Square Garden of politics...
Stampede. Three days later near Gerona, dressed in a peasant "monkey suit" of blue cotton, Sabater knocked on the door of a poor farmer named Juan Salas. "Do you have anything to eat?" he asked. "No, nothing at all," replied Salas. Sabater handed 250 pesetas to the farmer's wife and said: "See if one of your neighbors can sell you something to eat. Eggs, any thing." Sabater watched her carefully while she walked to a farmhouse half a mile away, then signaled the rest of the gang to come out of the brush and join...
...population explosion," the startling 20th century surge in humanity's rate of reproduction may be as fateful to history as the H-bomb and the Sputnik, but it gets less public attention. Today two-thirds of the human race does not get enough to eat. And it is among the hungry peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America that the population explosion is most violent. In 1900 there was one European for every two Asians; by 2000 there will probably be four Asians for every European, and perhaps twice as many Americans living south of the Rio Grande...
...amphibious craft manned by four cowled monks and a coast guardsman. When St. Angus finally got a line to them, the crew hauled up a tea chest of staples. It was no ham or roast goose Christmas dinner, for the monks who brought it were austere Trappists, who eat only bread, butter, cheese and fruit, but there were some cans of beer (kept for monastery guests), for St. Angus...
...keeping "gifts of substantial value," a qualification so vague that when Assistant Managing Editor Theodore Bernstein was pressed for specific proscriptions, he could only answer with a grin, "No yachts." The Minneapolis Star and Tribune restated existing policy: "Never accept more than a modest amount of anything one can eat, or drink, or that wilts." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reminded staffers of the paper's longstanding objection to acceptance of gifts-particularly anything worth more than...