Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from recommending that farm subsidies, on which the U.S. is now spending $3.1 billion a year, be cut back, Johnson warned that the removal of price props "would have a catastrophic effect on farm income." He urged that present programs for wheat, feed grains, cotton, tobacco, rice and wool "be extended and improved." He also said that additional programs for other commodities are in the works and that "recommendations will be made as circumstances may require...
...mirror image of his political tyranny. Determined to rush the transition to industrial power that had taken the U.S. and Britain 200 years to accomplish, he turned Russia into a gigantic state corporation that ruthlessly seized every bit of excess capital it produced in order to feed it back into its heavy industries-above all, steel-which are the sinews of a modern economy. With such a single-minded goal, planning was relatively easy...
Snakes are a big new fad-especially, say dealers, among women. Pythons and boa constrictors, at about $5 a foot, are the most popular. Seattle Dealer Dawayne Goodburn considers them "good family pets, very clean and companionable and easy to feed." He recently sold a 5-ft. South American boa to a family with 2½-year-old girl triplets. Snake-fancying Sophomore Laurie Vitt of Western Washington State College has a python, rattlesnake, tokay gecko and two boas, which he keeps in his room with his tarantulas when his parents entertain. One evening, he was treating the boas...
...Feed a husky three-year-old at the breast? Keep an intelligent seven-year-old illegally out of school on the tendentious grounds that he hasn't yet asked to go? Permit children to defecate on the floor, Or break up the chairs in a rented, furnished house? Even the most dogmatically permissive parent or psychologist would certainly draw the line. Yet Tarl Pracket, the strange antiheroine of Bell Call, brings up her children just like that-and such is the hallucinatory power of the author that for brief instants Tarl even seems to have a valid case...
...fingernails through many a tight squeak. As one swindle takes shape, she dryly murmurs to Belmondo: "Be there at 3:08 sharp-I'll be working without a net." Working together, they prove again that one sure way to fill out a meager movie is to feed it a couple of top bananas...