Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goods and services per man hour-that has trebled since 1917, far outstripping the performance of workers in any other industrial society (in 1960, European workers, for example, roughly reached the level of output attained by the American worker in 1925). In 1917, the U.S. farm worker could feed eight people; today, he feeds 40. In 1917, when the U.S. population was 103 million, the nation's gross national product was about $75 billion (in prices adjusted for inflation) compared with about $800 billion now, for a population of roughly 200 million...
...Kossomak. It took place in the Royal Throne Room, a fairy-tale chamber of nine-tiered parasols that shield a great gold throne beneath ceilings depicting ancient Asian tales incongruously set against French classical landscapes. After an exchange of gifts, Jackie was escorted outside under a purple parasol to feed the royal elephants, whose grasping trunks she approached gingerly...
Nabors, who offstage is only slightly less gentle than Gomer, went to Los Angeles in 1958 not to feed his ambition but to foil his asthma. He worked as an apprentice film cutter, sang on amateur nights at a club called The Horn. TV's Andy Griffith dropped by one night, liked his country-bumpkin patter between songs and offered him a walk-on role in his series. Nabors says he was as nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, but Griffith assured him that "all I had to do was act like...
Dirksen and Long are among the strongest supporters that the President has on the war. In many other cases, the neo-isolationist mood may well feed on popular discouragement over Viet Nam. But, as Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach noted recently at Connecticut's Fairfield University, it would be "a grievous and dangerous delusion to believe all our problems would be solved if we withdrew from Viet Nam, or from Asia, or from anywhere else." From Latin America, New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger wrote last week: "Our humiliation in Viet Nam would persuade guerrilla nuclei here...
...Subramaniam sees signs of hope. His country's agricultural skills are improving, he told the World Food Crisis Committee in Washington last week, and there is a real chance that by 1970 or 1971-the optimistic target date set by New Delhi planners -India may be able to feed itself...