Word: feed
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Alan Simpson, newly appointed successor to Sarah Blanding as president of Vassar College, once visited the San Diego Zoo. He was amused and distressed to find a sign reading "Don't feed the gibbons. They have a high susceptibility to dietary upsets." Simpson protested, "That sign ought to read, 'Don't feed the gibbons. It makes them sick.'" The flustered zoo people reworded their sign; they also gave Simpson a complimentary subscription to the Zoo News. What's more, he conscientiously read...
...California claimed. California's interpretation, unsurprisingly, would work greatly to California's advantage. Not a single river in California flows into the Colorado, but virtually the entire state of Arizona lies within the Colorado River Basin. If all of Arizona's streams and rivers that feed into the Colorado were included in the waters to be divvied up between the two states, Arizona would be entitled to a lot less water from the main stream and California could take a lot morea million acre-feet more by the Supreme Court's reckoning...
aide: "The belligerents speak to each other only through guns or through us." Star & Wall. In addition to policing the borders, the U.N. must also feed, clothe and house or educate 1,075,000 Palestine Arab refugees crowded into the 25-mile-long Gaza Strip separating Israel and Egypt and neighboring Arab countries. In all, 18,740 U.N. personnel from a dozen countries are engaged in the area, and the operation now costs more than $60 million annually. Strung out in two-man teams in remote posts for 15 days at a stretch, the observers face daily risks, plus...
...that Karl Marx was a better journalist than prophet. Today's U.S. economy would surprise even those who helped to shape its past. Alexander Hamilton would be shocked by the size of its mounting debt, and Thomas Jefferson would frown on the sprawl of the megalopolitan cities that feed it. The new economy has more competition than Theodore Roosevelt would have deemed possible, and more peacetime Government direction than Franklin Roosevelt ever dreamed...
...according to Horowitz, their position is politically unrealistic, since even if "they accumulate data and feed them into a computer and then determine that such and such date would be the most propitious time for dropping the bomb on the Soviet Union, so what? We are not going to push the button anyway...