Word: feed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Government must do is to shuttle millions of people on an inadequate railroad system. Furthermore, it must feed each Russian in transit. Each must know to what province and village be is to go. When he gets there he must find a locking and a way of making a living. Multiplied by millions, this is practically and theoretically impossible. Observers saw that, if attempted wholesale, it would leave a lot of Russians sitting around on curbs...
President Roosevelt shook hands all around, congratulated the crew on the salute of 21 foghorn blasts the Thebaud had paid the Sequoia down the river. The fishermen gave the President a 50-lb. halibut. "Just about enough to feed my family," chuckled Mr. Roosevelt, before cracking the old joke about the young bride who ordered six halibut for dinner. The Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy remembered well how one of the fleet's schooners had been sunk by German submarines...
...jobless and professional relief seekers. Down the steps to greet them marched big bluff Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson, only Farmer-Labor Governor in the land. The State Senate, preponderantly conservative, was still mulling over the Olson relief program. The theme of the marchers' plea was: "Tax the rich to feed the poor...
...After Dictator Josef V. Stalin, the starving Russians most hate George Bernard Shaw for his accounts of their plentiful food. . . . There is insufficient feed and many peasants are too weak to work on the land and the future prospect seems blacker than the present. The peasants no longer trust their government and the change in the taxation policy came too late...
...with deep gravity and with deeper contempt that it is perfectly true. But in another sense, there is a certain guerdon won by any liberal who incurs the enmity of the D. A. R. Professor Frankfurter will join a remarkably white company. Jane Adams, who was vulgar enough to feed starving immigrants and to educate them, achieved disrepute with the feminine Torquemadas, as did Mary Woolley and John Haynes Holmes. None of these disagreeable people believed in the bland assumption that all that is, is right...