Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mostly they explored. They took a trip in a covered wagon; they were shown, as well as told, what early pioneers had to put up with. They cooked their own meals, and put arithmetic to practical use by dividing pounds of hamburger by the number of mouths to feed. The sight, sound, and smell of trees and flowers freshened their vocabularies; watching lumbering and farming widened them...
Earnest A. Hooton, self-winding Harvard anthropologist, unwound a wallop at love on the dole. "Stupid, shiftless, and improvident human beings breed the most rapidly," he informed a California lecture audience, "because they feel little responsibility to their offspring and recognize no obligation to society. . . . If we must feed and foster the incompetent, we should at the same time prevent their reproducing their kind...
...created I.C.E.F to carry on its work for children. U.N. experts figured that it would need at least $450 million to care for an estimated 20 million semi-starved and rachitic waifs for a year. The money finally assigned to I.C.E.F. amounted to only $39 million, scarcely enough to feed 4,000,000 children for six months, and with no provision whatever for medical needs...
Since the loss of their empire, Japanese are rightly inclined to worry about how they will manage to feed a population of 80,000,000, packed into their tight little islands. But last week, when an occupation official asked, in curiosity, whether a Japanese government might encourage birth control in future, he got a stout no. The reason showed how little some Japanese had changed. Explained former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Katsuo Okazaki (while Foreign Minister Hitoshi Ashida nodded in solemn agreement): "Because with birth control, in 20 years we would not have enough young...
...last month, at a Bavarian political convention, a long-nosed German politician delivered a scathing attack on the occupation authorities of the western zones. He ridiculed Allied imports as "chicken feed," accused the British of "pilfering," and urged sitdown strikes. Last week, Dr. Johannes Semmler got his comeuppance from the U.S. and British occupation commanders. He was summarily dismissed from his post as executive director of economics for Bizonia...