Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many liberal activists like to be around the media and in the center of attention. One need only look at the 1972 McGovern campaign to see an example of this. It seemed every day that "sources" in the McGovern campaign were leaking information to the press about who was fed up or about to be fired. The American people knew the internal workings of the McGovern campaign as well as the candidate, thanks to the big mouths on the staff...
When the emergency energy bill was fed into the congressional legislative mills last October, President Nixon vigorously stressed its importance in helping the Administration meet the nation's fuel crisis. Last week the long-stalled measure won final congressional approval. But instead of welcoming the bill, the President now vows to veto it, leaving the nation's energy policy little advanced beyond where it was at the start of the emergency and transforming the problem of fuel shortages into what could be an explosive political issue...
Even more bizarre was the mysterious force that glitched TIME'S complex, computerized copy-processing system on closing night - at almost the precise moment that our psychic-phenomena story was fed into it. Against astronomical odds, both of the machines that print out TIME'S copy stopped working simultaneously. No sooner were the spirits exorcised and the machines back in operation than the IBM computer in effect swallowed the entire cover story; it developed a flaw in its programming that sent the copy circling endlessly through memory loops from which it could not be retrieved. Thirteen hours...
...have developed a rational alternative. We fed some coyotes a lamb pattie treated with a toxic salt. This made them sick, but they soon recovered. After one or at most two treatments, these sheep killers refused to attack lambs...
...cool to use efficiently; often it is laden with minerals and impurities that "crud up" turbine blades and even clog the bored hole itself. The steam can, in fact, be cleaned, but unfortunately the process is expensive. Its heat can be transferred to a non-corrosive gas and fed to the turbine, but that is inefficient...