Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...join the Market, we shall find it difficult to do so." Balewa's explanation: he feared the Common Market's ultimate goal of political federation might result in an industrial United States of Europe that would try to keep Africa a perpetual producer of raw materials to feed its factories...
They spread a story that a gang of whites with occult powers was kidnaping native men and women and turning them into pigs to feed the inhabitants of a land called Burumatare. Tribesmen were told that the whites roam the countryside with a machine that looks like a camera but which actually makes an indelible mark on the bodies of potential victims. Later a lorry arrives. When its horn blows, all those marked will be irresistibly drawn toward it and abducted, later to be injected with a solution that transforms them immediately into swine. "We must believe that the Europeans...
...despite all the warnings, there are still a few hundred unfortunate run-ins each year with the bears that roam the parks. Animal lovers simply do not believe that it is dangerous to feed the bears, often forget that leaving food or candy in a tent is an outright invitation to any beast within sniffing distance. Trouble is, they look so cute, and they seem to be smiling a happy welcome to visitors-but too few campers realize that a bear hardly ever smiles: he just looks that way all the time, even when he is rummaging through a garbage...
...million have been confirmed, and fewer than 3,000,000 are registered on parish rolls. If these facts might seem to argue that the church should win back its flock, the newest Archbishop of Canterbury, on his enthronement last week, made no sign that he will attempt to spoon-feed religion or pretend that Christianity is another kind of tranquilizer. Arthur Michael Ramsey, a man with a single-minded devotion to God,* made clear that it is up to the people to come back to the church...
...worth of pine a year with little effort, soon will produce all its own pulp and paper. But the Amazon's magnificent hardwoods (300 varieties v. 70 in the U.S.) rot on the forest floor, and its 600 varieties of palm trees, source of fiber, sacking, fuel, cattle feed and oils-stand unused...