Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them have gone to seek jobs in Jordan or the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The Arabs charge that the Israelis are allowing them to leave for political rather than humane motives, since every departing Arab is one potential terrorist fewer to deal with and one mouth fewer to feed. But the rate of the Arab exodus by bus and hired taxi has dropped off lately as word has spread that few jobs are available in Jordan...
...There the similarity ends. No longer or wider than one or two millimeters, they are usually invisible to the naked eye, and nestle most often in the pubic area (though they occasionally stray to the scalp, eyelashes and other thickets of body hair). They use their powerful jaws to feed leisurely on the blood of their hosts for hours at a time. For whites they are particularly irksome because their yellowish-grey color is a natural camouflage on Caucasian skin...
...news of the arrests spread across campus, other students began jeering at police, tearing bricks from sidewalks to hurl through windows, and constructing barricades at campus entrances. Fires were lit in two academic buildings; in one, the unpublished research papers of an unpopular professor were used as kindling to feed the flames...
Another group of seniors plan to feed Ex-lax to 500 pigeons and point them at the commencement crowd. "We got the idea from [Alfred] Hitchock's The Birds," said one senior, who asked that his name be withheld...
PREP schools follow the colleges--especially Exeter and Andover, which feed more people into Harvard each year than any other school. Now the slack on the cultural lag has pulled tight for those two schools; and while they glimpse the development of political activism on their campuses, their students are trying out the tragi-comic scene of dropping, blowing, and shooting pot, acid, hash, speed, belladonna, sunflower seeds, airplane glue, freon, Benzedrex Inhaler tubes, Paragoric Pall Malls, Romilar, and Dr. Schein's Asmador Powder...