Word: feed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somebody in the tense corridors of the U.S. Capitol last week called it the "ethics monster," an animal bred and trained by Democrats to feed on sleaze in the Executive Branch over the past 20 years. But the beast has broken loose in Washington and is devouring its congressional handlers. The consternation is palpable...
...teen pregnancy, drug abuse and illiteracy. We take an active stance. We get things done. And though we are open to those seeking information, we have adopted a policy similar to that of the Harvard academic community: the knowledge is here for your consumption, but we will not spoon-feed it to you. Spending our time proselytizing would mean one less Black child that we got off the streets and into a tutoring program: one less donation for our annual scholarship; one less thing we could do for our community. It is not that we have anything against intellectualizing...
There was this ad hoc nature of everyday life. For black people, anybody ! might do anything at any moment. Two miles in any direction, you may run into Quakers who feed you or Klansmen who kill you -- you don't know. When you leave the plantation, you are leaving not only what you know, you are leaving your family...
...explanations and indictments rolled in last week, the New York City case continued to feed a debate about freedom and fear, anarchy and obligation. "Blaming society, parents, poverty, racism, school systems and neighborhoods for teenage violence is too easy," said Dr. Edward Shaw, director of mental health for the New York State division of youth. "It does not answer the question Why do some teenagers in the same environment get into trouble and others do not?" There were those still willing to look for the hard answers last week. But others could only watch a woman in a coma, hear...
...American soldiers, slicing open the corpses and filling them with molasses and jam to attract ants. In retaliation, one U.S. general ordered his men to turn the island of Samar into "a howling wilderness." Samar has never recovered. Forty-one years later, Filipinos were risking savage Japanese reprisals to feed American prisoners of war marching in the notorious Bataan Death March. At war's end, Filipinos hailed the Yanks with a band playing God Bless America...