Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ensuing decades have brought lean years for Brico, who has labored in obscurity. She has fed her artistic soul on the scant fare of four or five concerts a year with the Denver Businessmen's Orchestra--and has fed her body by teaching piano. But if one waits long enough, the worm will sometimes turn. Twenty-odd years ago, one Judy Collins, age 10, landed in Brico's lap for piano lessons. Today, Collins is in a position to return part of the gift of this most gifted woman. She and Jill Godmilow have produced a documentary on Brico...
...beginning of the second half the booters came on strong and after two more missed opportunities--and 10 minutes of play--Acorn fed Lyman Bullard with a nice pass. Bullard took a hard ground shot which missed the goal post by about a yard to the end of the game. The Crimson peppered the goal but never managed to increase the margin...
Henry Adams wrote that "a friend in power is a friend lost"; that may apply to a husband as well. He becomes a different man, and not necessarily a better one. However humble his office or aptitude, he develops an exaggerated notion of his power. "His ego is constantly fed," observes Jane Muskie, who periodically denies such nourishment to her own husband. "A little kick in the behind sometimes helps," she adds. "Politicians are not a lovable lot," says an internist who has treated countless numbers of them and their wives during nearly 30 years of practice. "They are self...
Davison's computer cell not only "grows" when it is "fed" the right diet of chemicals, but acts up when it is mistreated. In a year of testing, for instance, Davison found that when he subjected his hypothetical cell to disturbances -the mathematical equivalent of a dose of cosmic rays, say, or a virus-it usually died. Sometimes, however, the disturbances affected the chemical reactions involved in the synthesis of messenger RNA (ribonucleic acid), which carries instructions from DNA, the master molecule of heredity, to the cell's protein-producing machinery. Under these conditions, the cell began...
...University Printing Office have been getting an especially good deal from Harvard--because of a special contract they were paid in-town wages, which are higher than Harvard's, along with Harvard's better-than-average benefits. Harvard severed its contract with the BTU in March, apparently fed up with the relationship...