Word: feed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City, Dallas and Tucson), just happened to notice lights on in the Barbara house, just happened to stop in for get-well-quick wishes to ailing Joe Barbara, who is a cardiac case. By equal coincidence, Barbara just happened to have on hand a few steaks (200 lbs.) to feed the boys...
...prescription, "Know thyself"; the little he knows about himself he hates. He also hates other things, especially the earth and the sky. The closest he has ever come to companionship is with a man who shares his hatred of birds and love of rats. To the rats they would feed frogs and baby thrushes: "It was on these occasions, we agreed, after an exchange of views, that we came nearest...
...book, perhaps, is a 7th century panel representing the willful martyrdom of a future Buddha. It illustrates the legend of a saintly youth who comes upon a family of starving tigers. Filled with pity, he flings himself down from the top of a cliff, offering his own body to feed the tigers' hunger. The story is told consecutively in a single picture, as in the case of some modern comic strips and many early Renaissance paintings. With Buddhist confidence in reincarnation on a higher plane, the youth gives himself up as simply as a candle flame pinched from...
...wave at. They can search the primitive labyrinthine waters of Florida's Everglades, wake to the spontaneous burst of sound and color of the Mangrove Coast, where thousands of roosting ibis, egrets, anhingas and spoonbills toy, and where silver tarpon jump by moonlight and coons and otters feed and play. They fish under the dawn-pink sky out of San Diego, and in the cool basins of the Colorado mountains. And they can just laze...
...objected David Egger. "If I don't think that way, who is going to look out for me? Go into politics? No, our politics are a dirty business. Of course, I ought now to really start thinking about a job. It I don't, who is going to feed...