Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husbands legs have given away. [Since this letter, he has died. He was 79 years old.] I have to do everything for him-dress him, wash him, feed him. . . . There is no doctor of pharmacy anywhere around. . . . There are only Kalmucks and Kirghiz people here. Some receive packages of food. If possible, send us some. . . . The most important things for us are some flour, sugar, tea and some sort of fats. We would be waiting for these packages as children wait for Father Christmas. Of course, we don't know whether they would ever reach...
...years the South, in attempting to in dustrialize, pulled itself up by its own boot straps. Absentee land ownership and tenant farming perpetuated the ruinous one-crop system and discouraged the diversification of agriculture which the South needs to save its soil and feed its own people. Lack of industrialization denied its people a chance to learn industrial skills, and lack of trained workmen hampered industrialization...
...only apparent obstacle to the shipment of food is the attitude of Winston Churchill, who is firm in his conviction of twenty years that what goes in the front door of the democracies may be taken out the back deer to feed the Nazi armies...
...plan claim that starving people will create discord and internal disruption. It is doubtful how much starving millions could do against a giant war machine that mows down well-fed and comparatively well-equipped armies. By withholding food from conquered democracies, these people claim that we force Germany to feed her own population and to feed her subject peoples as well to prevent the outbreak of disease. Germany would then have to burn her candle at both ends and might be forced into a difficult position. With no qualms about cruelty, however, Germany would never allow such a condition...
Music-serious music-is a profession which, to the helpless regret of music lovers as well as musicians, pays out in chicken feed. Thirty-one-year-old Paul Nordoff, angular, wirehaired, blond Philadelphian, has been better heeled than most young composers. He has won two Guggenheim fellowships worth about $4,500, took last year's $1,500 Pulitzer scholarship, is a teacher at the Philadelphia Conservatory. Composer Nordoff. who would have become a concert pianist had he not found that he was expected to study showy trash like Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, has written two piano concertos...