Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when we see headlines like "U.S. defaults on wheat shipments," "Farmers offered bonus to release grain," can you blame us if we picture the average American as a well-fed, heartless individual lacking in moral character? In our hearts we know it's not true, but for heaven's sake why don't the people get a grip on things and see that the food gets . . . into the bellies of the starving...
...opening the remote region for the first time, and epidemiologists fear that the disease will spread into the rest of Mexico. One fact which comforts Mexican researchers: though the disease has spread through the coffee-growing regions, where peons are mostly undernourished, it seldom attacks healthy, well-fed people...
...began to feel queasy. As a young state-supported engineering student, he declares, he fell in love with the wife of "one of the most important officials in the Ukrainian government." People in general were suffering and starving. But Julia Mikhailovna and her husband were as rich and well-fed as the Romanovs: "oriental rugs on the floor, tapestries and paintings, crystal chandeliers." Julia herself deplored the contrast. "You may not believe me," she said, "but I am opposed to all this gluttony of the leaders." Kravchenko begged her to reform, to flee with, him and live for her "ideals...
...rnberg last week the new, free German press emitted a rumbling protest that came from the stomach: its reporters covering the trials were not getting enough to eat. Result: the coverage of the trial had dropped from 15 to three German reporters (Allied newsmen, well-fed, were still at full strength). Exhibit A was German newsman Johann Hammer, who had lost 17 pounds in the past five weeks...
What many suffering listeners have wanted to do, one finally did last week. Mutual's program director, Charles Bulotti Jr., was relaxing at home, listening to dance bands over his network. He suddenly got fed up with the "yammer-yammer" of his announcers. Next day, in four sizzling pages, he told them...