Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, Barak collapsed and was taken to a hospital. Doctors feared he would die, but on the tenth day he made no protest when a nurse held his head and began to feed...
...London, the new commercial TV network scheduled to go on the air in September announced that it would cooperate with the BBC in leaving British TV screens blank from 6 to 7 every evening. Purpose: to enable parents to tear moppets away from TV sets, feed them and put them to bed before the night's programs begin...
...will one day direct the defense of North America by calculating the course, speed and altitude of approaching enemy planes, then firing guided missiles to intercept them. A 701 has gone to work for the Weather Bureau, and will attempt to make weather forecasting an exact science. Weathermen will feed into it hundreds of reports on rainfall, temperature, humidity, expect that the brain will be able to predict accurate weather for any place in the U.S. 48 hours in advance...
Unable to find a rare Type I, how can the young farmer at least run a test on Type II? "Take your candidate to the fields and the barns. Escort her across a muddy feed lot, lead her through poison ivy and, poison and all, take her to a dance. She'll complain . . . but if she comes back for more, she's your pigeon...
With its empire gone, Japan is a harsh and meager land. It cannot feed itself. It cannot provide raw materials for its factories. Its population grows by 1,000,000 a year, yet of its land-a total area smaller than California-a mere 17% is arable. Dirt is so precious that graves are limited to two square feet (cremation is almost universal in Japan). Factories, and the machines in them, are in advanced obsolescence. There are not enough jobs, though many tasks are featherbedded to employ two craftsmen, four janitors or two taximen where one would do. Costs...