Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan's ancient national sport, in which specially bred-and-fed giants, clad only in jundoshi (breechclouts) and their traditional topknots, grunt and tug interminably, like slow-motion dancing bears. Object:' to force one's opponent down so that some part of his body above the knee touches...
...Thackrey has plenty of money (about $8 million) and plenty of mother instinct. In 1939 she had enough of both left over, after amply providing for her own three children, to adopt the undernourished little New York Post (1938 loss: about $1,000,000). In five years she had fed it (mainly with columnists) into a fat, sassy brat (1944 profit: $300,000). "And now," she announced last week, "I have another sick baby...
...philosophy there is a Wonderful Valley which is very much like the Wonderful Valley of the New Deal. There the people are clothed, fed, sheltered and educated. But where some philosophers advocate jumping off the cliff (as Taft sees it) and trusting to wax-fastened wings to float them down into the valley, Taft would use the paths. He wants the American people to reach the Wonderful Valley with their bones intact...
...teachers, the poorest paid of all professional workers, were fed up with genteel poverty. Last week even the cautious, conservative go-year-old National Education Association (775,000 members) began to make noises like a union...
...hate to attack an old and, at least in some quarters, venerated Harvard institution. But I'm so fed up with the Lampoon that silence is no longer possible. The successive issues this term have degenerated from bad to intolerable. What should be the leading college humor magazine in the country is not even a creditable grade school publication...