Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know when I have a poem the same way a hen knows she has an egg." When he visited a friend in Kentucky, a startled observer reported: "In the first twenty-four hours the poet was seen to rescue several toads from wells into which they had stumbled; to feed from a bottle the runt pig of a large litter; to rub noses with a calf in a field; to whisper something into the wagging ear of a burro from Texas-imported for his express companionship; to feed countless chickens and ducks; and to ignore only men . . ." Summing...
...methods of cybernetics (the science of control mechanism) is to look for similarities between the human nervous system and the brighter man-made machines. One of these is the feedback: some means by which either the brain or a machine keeps track of what it has accomplished. Without proper feed-back apparatus a ship-steering mechanism, for instance, does not know how much it has succeeded in turning the ship. Therefore it cannot decide accurately when to stop turning. It is likely to send the ship into wild zigzags...
...cold, aggressive Duke had killed time seven years before, wiped his bloody blade upon his beard, and left time lying there on the cold stones of Coffin Castle, bleeding hours & minutes, while he hurried off in search of a kitten to tear apart or a handsome young prince to feed to his geese...
...slit you from your guggle to your zatch," the Duke replied, "and feed you to the Todal...
British farmers who want government funds to help them buy feed for livestock must fill out an application form. The form is self-explanatory-in a bureaucratic sort of way. "A grant, not exceeding 10% of the cost of rationed feeding stuffs," it assures the applicant, "may be paid under the [following] scheme...