Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course of that controversy, an opposition delegate to the National Assembly, shouting "Eat this saccharin!" threw the Assembly into confusion by hurling a can of human excrement at a group of surprised members of Park's Cabinet. He was protesting what he charged was government connivance in the smuggling. The Cabinet ministers resigned in anger, but Park quickly reappointed them. Lee finally smoothed over the situation by offering the government a 51% interest in the new fertilizer plant...
...scientist traveled through the central Africa rain forest until, in northwest Guinea, he found a place where his "dehumanization" hypothesis could be demonstrated. There, in an area with many open plains, the chimpanzees had gradually emerged from the forest, safe from natives who obey the Mohammedan commandment not to eat apes and have no reason to hunt chimps...
...Juvenal and Horace efforts in Near the Ocean now show Lowell as the proper envy of every translator in English: he has been able to have his cake and eat it. By this I mean that the relevance of Pasternak's remark, true enough for ordinary translators, has faded with respect of Lowell. Calling the poems "Translations" in the introductory more, and distinguishing among them the various degrees of freedom employed, he has managed to combine close fidelity to the literal text with tonal fidelity in an overwhelming percentage of lines and stanzas. And he has managed this working primarily...
Weight Watchers pay $3 for initiation and $2 weekly for dues. In return, they receive a fairly conventional list of recommended foods (high on proteins, low on carbohydrates, nothing fried), along with a stern admonition to eat only three reasonable meals a day and keep a careful watch on between-meal snacking. What makes Weight Watchers different from most other dieters is that they usually follow the prescribed regimen faithfully. The secret: frequent meetings, similar to the sessions of Alcoholics Anonymous, at which a lecture is followed by statements by each member on how much weight he has gained...
...their problems and share their mutual unhappiness (people who are not fat are known as "civilians"). Says Jean Nidetch: "There's no such thing as a jolly fat person." Adds Jerry Pozner, a Long Island University junior who has reduced from 238 lbs. to 137 lbs.: "People eat because they're lonely. When you come to Weight Watchers, you're not lonely any more...