Word: feed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other families are falling behind on their bills. Richard McClur, 23, and his wife Pamela, 22, owe two months' rent-a total of about $200-on their four-room cabin. They have made no payments since November on their car, speedboat and motorcycle. They feed themselves and their four-month-old daughter on $138 a month in food stamps, supplemented by pork from hogs raised by Pamela's father...
...month-old Alexander Dunn looks forward to greeting visitors to the Master's sherry hours; although he cannot yet remember or pronounce many names, the child recognizes faces and greets everyone with "Hi, boys! Hi, girls!" He refers to sherry hours as "potato chip time," because students like to feed him munchies on request...
Gnomes, it seems, have mastered medical techniques that equal or surpass' Western medicine. Gnomes feed and care for wounded or abandoned small animals, and in return for these small favors rabbits and birds and even elk will help gnomes when they are in trouble...
...however, remains to be seen. The farmers claim they are being forced out of business by the price-cost squeeze involved in trying to run their farms. In fact, many are lsoing their farms or are running into debt annually, as the rising cost of essentials such as machinery, feed and grain pushes their production cost above the prices they receive. To reverse this trend and ensure survival they want 100 per cent parity--that is, they want food prices to balance out production costs...
...lines of character and desperation are simply and painfully sketched. A young boy watches his mother become a prostitute in order to get a work permit she needs to feed her family. A man tries to participate in an illegal strike. Another watches his father die because he couldn't call an ambulance--there are few telephones in the black townships. They are stories that ring true, stories that have been told often enough by black South Africans. But they are still powerful, dramatic episodes; the audience is forced to come to terms once again with what systematically imposed injustice...