Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...politicos listened, then decided that Stevenson's "perhaps" policy was not the meat on which successful campaigns feed. Forty assembled candidates for Congress issued a joint statement: "We still stand squarely behind price supports at no less than 90% of parity...
...priced exports can balance. (A Japanese refrigerator sells for around $500.) But not all of her troubles are the fruits of postwar folly. Before she lost her empire in the war, she got rice from Korea, wheat from Manchuria. Now she must import $400 million in food annually to feed her people. Her own rice crop last year was the poorest in 60 years. She has no coking coal of her own; her prewar source of supply, the Chinese mainland, is now shut off. So she imports this coal from the U.S. and elsewhere...
...typical man-in-the-street opinion was voiced by an elderly Roman lady who has never forgotten the horrifying occasion in 1944 when a U.S. War Relief organization tried to feed her canned clam chowder. Said she: "I never thought that I would live to see the day when a chimpanzee earned more money than most humans and was sent on a grand tour. But then, what can you expect of a people who make soup out of shellfish and boiled milk...
...Some ants are hopeless "alcoholics." Certain species of British ants keep caterpillars of the Lycaena butterfly in their underground nests, by caressing them obtain drops of ant-intoxicating liquid. In their insatiable craving, the ants feed their own offspring and eggs to the caterpillars: nevertheless, when the caterpillars mature into butterflies, the ants peaceably let them escape to the outside world...
...gather leaves solely for wallpaper, actually chew them into a pulp to make an underground compost heap in which to grow mushroom spores. When a parasol princess flies forth to mate, she carries in her cheek her dowry: a speck of mushroom culture to start the garden that will feed her thousands of future children...