Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Macdonald proposes is that the government feed and house the Olympians and pay their transportation bills to Australia. "I am not proposing that we give these athletes salaries," he said, "rather I feel that we should get them together in some training site with weather similar to Australia...
...Greeks have a good case in Cyprus (TIME, Jan. 9), but they are not content to leave it at that. Day and night last week, as they have been doing for months, the official Athens radio and the excitable Greek press piled on faggots of falsity and fancy to feed the fire of the Cyprus problem...
...their values, loyalties, way of life and assumptions in connection with the novels they read, the plays and films they see, the music they play and hear, the buildings in which they live, work and worship, the social symbols they revere, the dreams and fables, indeed the myths they feed upon...
...Patterson's path from Manhattan's slums to his high skill as a professional boxer was filled with pitfalls. As a boy Floyd was "a lonely, disturbed and defiant being-the third in a family of eleven children, whom his parents, for all their toil, could barely feed." He was a truant. He ran with store-breaking gangs. Eventually his mother had him committed to an institution for problem children. He was 14, a tall, skinny welterweight, when he first found Cus D'Amato's Gramercy Gymnasium & Health Club on Manhattan's Lower East Side...
...average American collegian is "spoon-fed" in more ways than one, said Commager. Not only do we feed them "in the form of lectures and textbooks and outlines" but also "we provide our students with their sports and games, wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars...