Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DuMont and ABC television networks, which carried the McCarthy-Army hearings live through 36 days and 186½ hours of testimony, figured out what the public service cost them. ABC paid about $500,000 out of pocket to feed the hearings to as many as 71 outlets, estimated that it would have cost an advertiser $2,700,000 to sponsor the entire telecast of the hearings. The smaller (ten stations) DuMont network used $700,000 worth of air time to carry the hearings, would not say how much the telecasts actually cost...
President Lowell was moved to write that "the students to have forgotten that gregarious animals and civilized feed together, and that meals have a social as well as nutritive value." Since the closing of Memorial Hall a year and a half before, more than 3000 animals were cramming down their food at self-service cafes and the president and officials of the University felt the situation needed a remedy...
Past Failure. In his 25 years of brutal collectivization and regimentation of the peasantry, Stalin failed to wrest enough food out of the Russian soil to feed his people; the output of some agricultural products (e.g., meat, milk, butter) fell below the 1916 levels of czarist days. Last September Nikita Khrushchev admitted the shortcomings of the Stalin program and announced a program of incentives to persuade the peasants to grow more. The Kremlin said consolingly that there was enough bread grain, but Khrushchev complained of severe shortages of livestock, vegetables (particularly potatoes), coarse grain and other fodder...
...faces another problem. Even more than in life, the TV female is deadlier than the male. On practically every TV husband & wife show, the husband gradually diminishes to a straight man while the wife moves front and center, grabbing the best lines. Some TV husbands do little more than feed gags to their wives (e.g., Burns to Allen), or end scenes by chuckling: "In spite of everything, darling, I love you very much." TV wives invariably know best, and their most crackpot ideas turn out better than their husband's commonsensical thoughts...
...Dancer whickers. "When he's talkin' like that, he wants his food," says Murray. Two quarts of oats go into the cerise and white feed bucket. The Dancer is a "good doer," i.e., a copious eater?about ten quarts of grain and extras a day. As the horse eats, Murray begins to whistle. "This is how I make him make water," he explains...