Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Pope: "Some people are quoting the Bible against us in the poverty war, saying, The poor always ye have with you.' " Did His Holiness know an effective rejoinder to that? He did indeed. "Tell them," enjoined Paul, "that they are also commanded by the Bible to feed the hungry and clothe the naked...
...ignored the Armed Services Committees of both houses when it comes to making crucial military decisions. As House Minority Whip Leslie Arends protested last week: "Secretary McNamara seldom asks advice, and listens only when he asks. I am constrained to ask: 'Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed that he is grown so great...
...Never in History." As for Ford's criticism of the supply bottleneck, McNamara told the Senate committee: "It is absurd. We are supplying fresh meat and fresh vegetables to feed our troops. We are supplying 9.2 pounds per man per day of PX supplies. How could you talk of a shipping shortage under those conditions?" The Defense Secretary also pointed out that the U.S. had moved 100,000 men 10,000 miles in less than four months-a feat unprecedented in military logistics. There are now 325,000 combat-ready U.S. troops in Southeast Asia, 245,000 of them...
Tattered Memories. But that was all the show. Inside, as color-TV cameras recorded the event for 60 million viewers, the Oscar derby seemed more ticky-tack than ever. Even Bob Hope seemed off his feed ("I can't drink like Lee Marvin, grunt like Rod Steiger or enunciate like Sir Laurence Olivier. And when it comes to Richard Burton, I'm really in trouble"). What was billed as entertainment made The Beverly Hillbillies look good. The choreography was out of Busby Berkley; the filmed interviews with former winners seemed like tattered memories from a discarded album...
...traditions never die: Lord Jeffrey Amherst tried to deal with the Indian problem by sending them blankets contaminated with smallpox germs. Today, two centuries later, Amherst men are trying to cope with still another problem, but again with blankets." When going to Wesleyan, pack "knee socks, saltines (they never feed you) and a guitar." At Williams, beware of "the woods and the steam tunnels under the school." At Columbia, "be prepared for plenty of pot, plenty of existentialism and plenty of Susan Sontag...