Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes at a time when Party Boss Leonid I. Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin are launching a major attempt to correct the Soviet Union's underlying economic ill: its troubled agricultural system. Though a grain exporter under the Czars, Russia under the commissars is unable even to feed itself; it imported almost as much grain (25 million tons) during the past three years as India and China combined...
Mississippi of Mediocrity. Moreover, that homogeniety is reinforced by a tendency to feed on one another. As Mathes put it: "The editor of magazine X publishes frequently in magazine Y, which just happens to be the magazine edited by the poet who appears regularly in magazine Z." The result, as Paul Carter of The Colorado Quarterly sees it, is that "there develops a breed of poet and short-story writer found only in these magazines. I believe that The Colorado Quarterly could disappear without much notice being taken, just as it appears without much...
...Viet Cong know the customs of the people, speak their language, and come from the people, while the U.S. soldier is unfamiliar with the culture and bound to make mistakes which can be exaggerated to feed anti-American sentiment...
...School's functions be farmed out to the other departments in the University, that it train only academicians, that it became a research institute with no students, or that it train only teachers, decided that the special challenge of the Graduate School of Education is to "identify and feed into the center of the University the live problems of school and community, and concurrently, to concentrate all relevant energies of the University upon the educational enterprise...
...result, the cells become covered with thousands of gamma-1 molecules. Thus the other, more effective gamma-2 antibodies can find no place to attach themselves and are totally unable to act. With their coating of inactive gamma-1 antibodies, cancer cells feed, grow and spread...