Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaves him, he adopts a seagull with a broken wing, nursing it back to health. This serves to demonstrate that there is a gentle nature lurking beneath all that calculated vulgarity. In any event, they are reunited. He allows her to stuff herself with candy the way he fed fish to the seagull, and in the end he watches her die horribly, her head shaven, her eyes bulging with fear...
Refiners could well have had additional reasons for seizing the first opportunity to cut wholesale prices. Fed up with high sugar costs, the Consumer Federation of America is staging a ten-day nationwide consumer boycott scheduled to end Dec. 10. Some supermarket chains, like Tradewell Stores Inc., which operates in California, Oregon and Washington, are urging customers not to buy sugar at all; in one week the chain's sugar sales dropped 75%, according to Tradewell President Al Thompson. Moreover, the fourfold increase in retail sugar prices so far this year has fattened company profits remarkably, but those profits...
...runoff ditch, fed by the drains from the campgrounds. Left alone it is a glorified mud puddle, finely churned by the hundreds of motorcycles that scramble back and forth. In the middle a naked man is rolling about in the mire. The deeper he sinks, the greater the crowd's pleasure. A few thousand people now mill about this shallow, bowl-like dip of land, waiting for another victim, throwing empty cans of beer at each other. For the present they must content themselves with stoning the engine of an already charred hulk. Here there is no real audience...
...Ford cannot take the joyous reception at face value. Despite Seoul's modern high-rise buildings and well-clothed, well-fed people, South Koreans are increasingly restive under the repressive rule of President Park Chung Hee. In an attempt to stamp out dissent, he issued a series of decrees this year that almost completely gagged the Korean press. Further, his police rounded up more than 250 critics of the regime; some 200 still remain in prison...
...corner, this son of a shoe-factory clerk from Leicester, watching the Old Parties of British aristocracy come and go, fretting over the State of the World, then settling down to a civilized meal as if it were their last: "Decanters on tables, lights beaming off cutlery and peach-fed cheeks...