Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trial's 'mad and melancholy" mass of evidence, which the U.S. prosecution had helped compile with masterly precision, was not, as the defense had claimed, merely a disconnected series of misfortunes. Said Jackson: "Each part of the plan fitted into every other. . . . The armament industries were fed by the concentration camps. The concentration camps were fed by the Gestapo. The Gestapo was fed by the spy system. . . . Planning a war . . . involves the manipulation of public opinion . . . industry and finance...
...Imperial's sleepless rooms are a tight symposium of cubes and hexagons, an epidemic of shallow drawers, a rash of unpainted knobs, an aurora of burnished copper. The bed (in the room I occupied) was a grass-fed sarcophagus. . . . The capacious copper wash basin made me feel that I was usurping the rights of the turnips at a steam-table lunch counter, and the light was directed at such an angle that I could shave myself successfully only between the shoulder blades...
Four times between 1941 and 1944, fed by the Republican and its sisters-the Plattes, the Yellowstone, the Niobrara, the Cheyenne, the Belle Fourche-the Missouri had jumped its unstable banks. Men watched in misery while people, barns, houses, hogs, cattle and precious topsoil went tumbling down its chocolate torrent. Estimated damage: $149 million...
...Swiss Government had suspended the fights for the war's duration because the fighting cows when in training are fed white wine and bread and are not expected to produce much milk. Last week, thanks to peace, hundreds of cowbells in the passes leading to the high pastures tinkled a martial melody: tough Valaisan farmers and big Valaisan cows were heading for another rendezvous with destiny...
Shpihun had weighed it all very carefully. It was true that Canada had treated him well. Poor on arrival, he had been fed and housed by relief money when he could not get any of the limited manual labor he could do. Later he had been able to marry, raise four healthy children. For the last six years, Shpihun had worked steadily, earned $160 a month in a shipyard. His teen-age daughter Mary and son Bill had steady jobs also with the Canadian National Railways. They had plenty to eat and a cozy home, had even saved some money...