Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meetings as possible, instead loaded the visitor's schedule with trips to Nasser's pet projects, notably the Aswan Dam, where 2,000 Russian technicians could hardly escape Chou's notice. What with some $1.5 billion in Soviet aid and heavy dependence on U.S. wheat to feed Egypt, Nasser has had strained relations with Peking of late. Days before Chou's arrival, his press belatedly chided China for its attack on India...
Vogue's raison d'etre provides the theme which permeates the book, and, I think, insures its success. As well as reporting "news" in its own inimitable way, Vogue exists more importantly to "cherish the sense of beauty, to feed the mind, to stir the imagination." In performing these functions, it excels. One must, of course, put up with those inevitable articles on the role of women, on travel, on famous people. The writing about the arts is sometimes noteworthy and often entertaining...
...year 2000, Rock said, there will be at least six billion people on the earth--about twice the present figure--unless immediate steps are taken. Pointing to underdeveloped nations as the most crucial at this time, Rock declared that "it is impossible that we will be able to feed twice as many people in 36 years, when we can't take care of everyone...
...Kremlin this week, the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee is pondering the grave crisis in agriculture that has made it virtually impossible for Russia to feed itself...
Take an IBM machine and feed in a gossip column. Then throw in a couple of back issues of the Congressional Record and several academic mortarboards. There you have The McLandress Dimension, a tongue-in-cheek commentary on contemporary American politics, academia, and society...