Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Them Eat Kaoliang!" By 1946, Lin's tactical target was the northeast of China, where the Japanese had built up a thriving industrial base during World War II. The Russians, who had pounced like vultures at war's end, were busily dismantling the best of the Japanese factories when Lin and his 150,000 men arrived, but Lin sent cadres into the countryside with the order: "Take off your leather shoes, lay down your office bags, put on the clothes of the peasants, and eat kaoliang [the coarse sorghum of Manchuria]." The lessons of Yenan were being applied...
...eat." He became interested in politics, appeared on behalf of Democratic office seekers, and as a reward was made a field agent for the city water and power department...
...honesty" in money dealings, rarely complain of being shortchanged or cheated. Visitors marvel at American highways, cloverleafs and bridges, admire U.S. drivers for "staying in lane," and deplore ubiquitous billboards. They are horrified at the amount of food piled on their plates and at the haste with which Americans eat, but usually leave ecstatic over American salads and agreeably surprised by California wines. Meat, particularly "steaks big as blankets," impresses visitors, but when Japan's Dr. Chozo Oshima sampled a bisonburger, he had to pronounce it "not for the Japanese palate." Since television in most of the world...
...easy to know that white marlin, those denizens of the deep, don't eat rabbits. But do the marlin know it? Hosting, the Second Annual Governors Invitational Marlin Tournament at Ocean City, Maryland's pixyish Governor J. Millard Tawes, 72, arrived with a "secret weapon"-a lure made from a rabbit's foot with a hook in it. Presto! Barely five minutes after Tawes got out to the fishing grounds, a 7-ft. 4-in. marlin hurled itself at his line. "My goodness!" exclaimed Tawes, and pumped in the prize. No one else got even a sniff...
More than anything else, the food-price spiral is part of a broader inflationary pattern that has been stitched by Government policy. Considering the cost of other things, today's food prices are far from exorbitant: the ordinary American family spends 18% of its after-tax income to eat-and that average is the world's lowest...