Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taciturn John Red hired no help. He slept in the stable, tended all the horses himself (which in a fashionable stable would busy five men). His equipment was primitive: because he lacked screw-eyes to hold up feed tubs, the horses ate off the floor. John rubbed all eight horses, galloped them, even shoed them. Last week, when Sunshine Park ended its 50-day meeting after going $100,000 in the red, John Red ordered another boxcar. This time he had some cash in his pants. His catch-as-catch-can stable had won eight races...
...agencies can facilitate thought and discussion. They can stifle it. ... They can debase and vulgarize mankind. They can endanger the peace of the world; they can do so accidentally, in a fit of absence of mind. They can play up or down the news and its significance, foster and feed emotions, create complacent fictions and blind spots, misuse the great words, and uphold empty slogans. [They] . . . can spread lies faster and farther than our forefathers dreamed. . . ." They can, said the Commission, and they...
Standing $2,400 short of their $25,000 goal, more than 13,000 members of the University community contributed $22,600 during an intensive three-week campaign to help feed under-nourished students abroad, Food Relief Committee leaders disclosed late last night as they officially wrote finis to the Second Emergency Food Drive...
...Filipinos as well as allied nationals in Manila, groaning under the iron heels of the enemy, soon discovered that to lie, deceive or steal was the only way to survive. ... A sackful of Japanese "Mickey-Mouse" money often would not buy fish and rice to feed your starving wife and children. The only way out was to steal. Imperceptibly, insidiously, inevitably, a weakening of the moral fiber had to come about. Thus, even long after V-J day, we see the sad spectacle of a considerable number of Filipinos still finding it convenient and profitable to live by their wits...
...Holman, was a Texas ranch hand who had a local reputation as a "hoss traduh." He settled down with his family in Monahans, whose 35 weather-beaten houses marked only a wider place in the road. While Dad Holman kept a livery stable and feed store, his wife ran a boardinghouse grandiloquently called the "Holman Hotel." Young Gene helped around the hotel and attended the one-room country school...