Word: feed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aging widows dashed off letters and telegrams pleading for the dogs' lives. A Pennsylvania legislator said he would introduce a bill to make it forever illegal for a will to order death for "any living creature, whether it be dogs or goldfish." A dog-food manufacturer offered to feed the dogs for life...
...children were abandoned last year alone, left to become wards of the state or delinquents of the streets. The government's Venezuelan Children's Council spent $10 million last year to care for 96.000 homeless minors, 90% of them illegitimate. With too many mouths to feed, mothers in the backlands sometimes sell or give their daughters to the first man who comes along...
...Latin America for use in a free school-lunch program. So far, under the Food for Peace program, the U.S. has sent thousands of tons of surplus flour, cornmeal, edible oils, cheese, beans and powdered milk. Distributed by private relief agencies and local officials, the food will help feed 8,300,000 children this year, or 25% of Latin America's school-age population. Another 5,400,000 babies and pregnant women get at least one square meal...
...three-month period, reports one Brazilian teacher, most of her pupils gained at least five pounds. With plenty of surplus food where this came from, Food for Peace Director Richard W. Reuter ex pects that within a year the U.S. will be helping to feed one-third of Latin America's schoolchildren...
...lines are not wasted; he knows how to be sufficiently kindly in his final derangement to make the switches of the pageant plausible, just as Griselda (Carol Schechtman) is sufficiently astute, generous, and conventional. The mystics, led by Kerr and Belle MacDonald, have nothing but ghosts of parts to feed on, which is a pity, for they are evidently capable players...