Word: fed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...struck twice on the head so that his blood flowed, while the offending policeman deputized several onlookers to take him, unresisting, to jail. He charged that it was a "frame-up." According to the official accounts he was: 1) drunkenly throwing things around in the restaurant, or 2) being fed by two lady companions when arrested; he resisted and the policeman was obliged to deputize others present to aid in taking him to the station-house...
...ordinary budget, which he made to balance by adding 3,500,000,000 francs ($175,000,000) to taxes. He then proposed a sinking fund for the liquidation of War expenses. This sinking fund would: 1) complete reconstruction; 2) pay off France's War debts. It would be fed: 1) by German reparations (which are withdrawn from ordinary receipts) ; 2) by recovery of excessive payments made to various individuals in the devastated regions for reconstruction; 3) by any surplus from the ordinary budget...
Dreamy Aunt Priscilla fed Mamma some silvery "mushrooms," which filled The Maples with a thin screaming for three days. That left Victor in charge of his sisters...
...master to its pit in the local cemetery. Clods fell on the coffin. He wagged his tail. His master was down there, hiding. Last week the dog, shaggy now and truculent, lame with age, his coat gnarled and his old bones stiff, stretched out to die. For six years, fed by marveling neighbors, he had kept watch over the grave...
...writer is not especially interested in theo!ogy, but merely opposed to the public being fed on BUNK...