Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Critics of Prouty's proposal denounced it as fiscal profligacy. Florida Democrat George Smathers warned that it would "feed the fires of inflation." Asked Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore: "How can we have our cake and eat it too?" Long, who acted as floor manager for the Administration tax bill, objected that the amendment could benefit millionaires as well as paupers. Nonetheless, in an election year, many Senators saw the justice of Prouty's proposal. Watched by lobbyists from the National Council of Senior Citizens in the gallery, they passed the amendment, 45 to 40, with the support...
...fall, and in January moved into a four-room apartment in Glendale furnished mainly with prizes won by Pennel: two TV sets, a tape recorder and a stereo phonograph. Pennel works days as a wine salesman, and the household chores-including cooking-fall to Seagren. "Mostly," he says, "we eat steak, because it's easy." Along the way, Pennel persuaded Seagren to keep trying...
Frenchmen call it saumon blanc and eat it with gusto. To the British, it is the fish in their beloved fish 'n' chips. On the U.S.'s West Coast, however, it goes by the unappetizing name of hake, and what little of it fishermen have caught has been ground into fish meal for poultry feed...
...reported that "as soon as we set sail the natives all laid down on deck as thick as Negroes in a slave pen, and smoked and conversed and captured vermin and ate them, spit on each other, and were truly sociable." Hawaiian oranges were delicious, although "I seldom eat more than 10 or 15 at a sitting, however, because I despise to see anybody gormandize...
...shut ourselves up in the healing solitudes of Haleakala and get a good rest; for the mails do not intrude there, nor yet the telephone and the telegraph. And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all thanks belong, for those privileges, and never housekeep any more." Yet, aside from a tantalizing shipboard glimpse of a Honolulu quarantined by cholera in 1895, he never found his way back...