Word: fed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trumpeted stories of Astor and his heroic pet airedale Kitty, the news about the steerage-class passengers surfaced inside underneath a box-score, and everyone was happy. An adventure-hungry public eagerly devoured all the stories about the ship's blue-blooded survivors, and the big newspaper magnates obligingly fed them improbable tales of white-tie-and-tails lifeboat heroism. The name Titanic acquired a musical aura, a smokey, well-monied air of drama and romance that later sold countless books and a pair of slick Hollywood tearjerkers to an easily-impressed public. A chance meeting between an iceberg...
Holding Fuel. Gas producers, based mainly in the South and Southwest, have indeed been holding back fuel that could be fed into interstate pipelines for shipment to the East Coast and the Midwest, because the Federal Power Commission will let them charge no more than $1.44 per 1,000 cu. ft. for it. Instead, they have been selling the gas in the states where it is produced, mainly Texas and Louisiana, at uncontrolled prices of around $2. Indications are that the amounts of gas thus diverted are vast. Interstate pipelines took 67% of all new gas produced...
When the worst of the cold struck, some 40 migrant workers were taken from their flimsy camp shacks near Winter Garden by county officials and housed and fed at public expense for six days in a Ramada Inn. In the area as a whole, however, the crisis has heightened rather than eased the traditional tensions between growers and workers. Florida Governor Reubin Askew's success in getting Carter to declare the region a disaster area is resented by the owners in conservative Lake and Orange counties-both of which voted for Gerald Ford in November. They are afraid that...
There is a withering crossfire of pedantries in nearly all academic discussions of slavery and American blacks. Two years ago, in a book called Time on the Cross, Economist-Historians Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman accumulated a mass of data on antebellum life in the South. They fed their statistics into computers and came up with an astonishing portrait of slavery as a highly rational and efficient system that gave the South considerable economic growth and a high standard of living for all Southerners, both black and white. While admitting the immorality of slavery, Fogel and Engerman found that blacks...
...part of the Federal Writers Project of the New Deal, scores of very elderly blacks who had lived under slavery were interviewed all across the South. Selections of the interviews, collected in Life Under the "Peculiar Institution, " prove that generalizations about slavery are nearly impossible. Some slaves were well fed and happy. Some were beaten to death...