Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could hardly wait to start hunting. He would be out with a shotgun, he told reporters, just "as soon as they feed me." Right after lunch in Pete Jones's three-story white colonial mansion. Ike turned out in a rust-colored suède jacket over a tan cashmere shirt. In 3½ hours the President's party flushed 26 coveys of quail, and Ike himself, using a 20-gauge automatic shotgun, brought down eight birds. Next day he returned to the hunt, bagged his legal limit of twelve...
...replied curtly: "I have no wish to defend myself that way. All the state ministers were responsible for assisting the Emperor to make the decision." As always, Kishi had a practical plan. Japan, he argued, was using only 10% of its production in the war with China ("Chicken feed!"), and by properly organizing the remainder could win quick military successes in Asia, and then negotiate a settlement with the U.S. and Britain that would leave Japan in control of most of the Pacific...
Nothing for Background. The pencil newsmen tend to regard their TV colleagues as upstarts who know little more about journalism than how to plug a cable into a socket. The newspapermen resent being forced to feed their best questions to the TV competition, and they feel strongly that the camera's presence spoils the essential informality of press conferences. How can a news source say, "Now, if I may explain for your background," when mikes are open and cameras are grinding...
...great postwar exodus to Suburbia has scattered commuters through the U.S. countryside surrounding great cities, put a crippling strain on the arteries that feed the metropolises. A few foreign cities also have problems in handling the commuter torrent: London and Paris groan beneath its weight, Tokyo hires students to push commuters tightly into rush-hour trains, and Calcutta's commuter rails are so crowded that people ride prone on the roofs of coaches. But in the U.S., the nationwide flight to the suburbs has created a huge problem for almost every major city. And the problem...
...Harlem River in such a way that a new highway could pass under it, then upped taxes on the bridge from $70,000 to $500,000 a year. Says the Central's solicitor, Robert D. Brooks: "Everyone wants to milk the cow, but no one wants to feed...