Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suddenly freed men began freeing their fellow prisoners. "We're hungry," they shouted, and when nothing happened, they began tossing machinery and empty food carts into the courtyard. The more diligent of the inmates began making bonfire piles of stools and pallets. Others ripped off cell doors to feed the flames. As acrid fumes rose from a score of separate fires, eight squadrons of gendarmes, along with truckloads of municipal police and four companies of firemen, rushed to the scene. Inside the prison, Warden Hyacinthe Mariani, accompanied by three high-ranking Paris police officials, begged and pleaded with...
Food v. Factories. China's willingness to go against Communist doctrine is most evident in its approach to what Newsman Kinmond calls "the most vital question in China today": how to "feed a population increasing at the rate of 12 million annually." Ignoring Karl Marx's faith in population increase, the government has embarked on a drastic birth-control program that will soon include free abortions and sterilization. The crux of the problem, Kinmond emphasizes, is that China's "main source of foreign credit" for heavy industrial equipment is the export of foodstuffs...
...Yale had refused to guarantee him a steady diet of such dishes as sunflower seeds and carrot juice, Australia's Olympic Swimming Champ Murray Rose, 18, a resolute vegetarian, decided to sample higher education elsewhere, perhaps at the University of Southern California. "At U.S.C. they are willing to feed me whatever I want," explained Rose...
...festival boom and started looking around for an uncommitted composer, they found to ;heir distress that the supply of Germans iad been exhausted: Ansbach and Leipzig lad Bach; Bonn had Beethoven; Bayreuth had Wagner; Munich had Richard Strauss. Partly because they wanted a :omposer who had written enough to feed the festival for years, the Augsburgers aicked Verdi, and reminded visitors that :he city was once Germany's gateway to Italian commerce. This year Augsburg is offering Verdi's Otello and his rarely performed Battle of Legnano on an open-air stage with the city's famed...
Finished at 117? To feed his large-scale family (Ziolkowski and his wife Ruth have six children, are expecting a seventh) and to help finance his dream, he bought cows and established a successful dairy farm, bought and successfully operated a sawmill. He and his wife milk the .cows (by machine), manage the sawmill, shepherd the tourists and keep digging at the mountain. At times they startle visitors by coming in from work in mountain-and-barn clothes and appearing for dinner a few minutes later in formal dress...