Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somehow they did not look like survivors of a three-month siege. They appeared well fed. They stood smartly to attention, with uniforms incredibly clean and boots new and polished. Major General Ahmed Badawy, the tough Third Army commander, said: "We had enough ammunition to go on fighting indefinitely, and we were getting supplies regularly. I am not going to tell you how we were getting our military supplies, but we were getting them...
Chile: with poems and guns is an hour-long documentary which dissolves the myths U.S. readers were fed about the government of Salvador Allende. It shows how these lies and distortions were rooted in misconceptions about the Chile before Allende's government. The film was produced collectively by members of the Los Angeles Group for Latin American Solidarity, eight filmmakers, writers, and historians who put what they call a film pamphlet together. It is based on a script by Charles Horman, a U.S. citizen killed by the junta after the U.S. Santiago embassy denied him asylum...
Some Republicans, seeking consolation, argue that Watergate has left all politicians in bad odor. "People are so fed up," says New Hampshire's Senator Norris Cotton, "we've fallen behind used-car salesmen, and in view of recent court decisions, it looks like the homosexuals will soon be ahead...
...Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, Standard Oil of Indiana, Shell and Standard Oil of California to ring up nine-month 1973 profits that averaged 46% above 1972's comparable period would have brought on considerable praise. But, at a time of oil shortages and sharply rising prices, the great increases fed suspicions on Capitol Hill that the oilmen were using the scarcity as an excuse for jacking up prices and making extortionate profits. Charged Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff: "While the consumer is suffering, the industry seems to be receiving a bonanza...
...several exits and expulsions, he quit the Cabinet in protest against the government's decision to levy a small fee for patients' spectacles and dentures. Partly as a result, Labor was turned out of office in 1951; the electorate bit the hand that had fed it, with Sevan's false teeth...