Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agriculture permit them the luxury of worrying about reducing diets instead of diet deficiencies. Below it are the potentially prosperous lands of the Southern Hemisphere's temperate zone. Along the belt live many of the 2.5 billion citizens of the underdeveloped world, nearly all of them ill-fed: at least 60% are malnourished, and 20% more are starving...
...many Guinness busters, it was not all goldfish and chips. Three weary young high school students, in the middle of their 35th game of Monopoly and six hours ahead of the previous record, complained that they had not been properly fed and "it's extremely boring." Three other young titlists came better prepared. Setting their own private record for unicycle riding (50 hr.), they brought along Johnson's baby powder to alleviate what they called "diaper rash" and kept happy in the saddle for a record 50 by playing cards, Ping Pong and pool...
...sick, fed up, had it, with all the guides to economizing [April 8] that are appearing in magazines now during the current inflationary period. Lots of us have lived this frugal way all our lives...
...detention room for "character training," designed to curb unruly behavior. Neatly dressed students move about only on passes and line up single file for recess. Says Board Member Henry Myers, a chemical engineer: "This is my idea of the way basic education should be carried out. Parents are fed up with violence, vandalism, poor teaching and permissiveness. They want their kids to be disciplined and to learn the basics-how to count, spell, read and write...
...There was no free speech, no free press--they brainwashed the Portuguese people," Ferrera explained. "But people were fed up of these things and of the war overseas--they talked about nationalism, patriotism, all this stuff, but soldiers would come home with no more legs...