Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phone rang. "Is this Mrs. Thorne?" asked a man's guttural voice. *'I have your boy." Wordlessly. Freda Thorne passed the receiver to the policeman. "I have your son." the voice repeated. "I want ?25,000 by 5 o'clock tonight, or I'll feed him to the sharks...
...Alaskan salmon life span is four to five years. Fish are hatched in fresh-water streams, spend two years there, then migrate .to open waters of the North Pacific, where they feed and grow. After swimming some 6,000 miles, they return to exact spot of birth...
...Feed the Hungry. Aware that both Nixon and Kennedy were suggesting that the U.S. should do more about defense, the President noted "changing Communist tactics and attitudes," announced that he had ordered the armed forces to take "certain practical measures" to increase their readiness, called for five new Polaris submarines (instead of three), added that it might be necessary to call for more defense appropriations later...
...Colombia next month, Eisenhower said, the U.S. would put forward a new $600 million loan program for Latin America. And to the U.N. General Assembly, he went on, the U.S. would soon present a new food-for-peace plan for using the agricultural abundance of the U.S. to "feed the hungry of the world," letting the U.N. instead of the U.S. distribute...
...roam the fields and towns unmolested while families go without meat for weeks at a time. New Delhi's planners now forecast the 1966 population at 480 million-an increase of 65 million over the present total, or the equivalent of the population of Brazil. To help India feed this huge population during the next five years, the U.S. has agreed to lend $1.3 billion to pay for 17 million tons of U.S. surplus wheat and rice (TIME, May 16). But ultimately, India's economic stability will depend on learning to feed itself. And that will...