Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student H. F. Smith Jr. of IBM's Watson Laboratory at Columbia began by analyzing the moon's orbit with IBM's fast-figuring computers. The moon's position has been observed with precision for 200 years, so there was more than enough data to feed into the machines. After they pondered electronically for several hundred hours, weighing the effects of the earth, sun, planets and relativity on the moon's orbit, the computers reported that in a three-year cycle the moon would move ahead and then back of its previously calculated position...
...capacity for fun--and blowing his own horn--is prodigious. Most of his fellow councillors appreciate and tolerate Vellucci. "Oh, he's peppy tonight," commented one to the press table when Al began a typical harrangue, "What'd you guys do, feed him some pills before he came today?" The councillor was irritated and amused: at the time, the session was more than four hours old, and eight people remained in the audience. Still Al Vellucci wouldn't shut...
...fine for having visited Cuba. Early this year, we had discovered that he had succumbed to these pressures. To escape, he began using heroin, embezzling funds form the movement to pay for his need; indeed, he finally sold out to the police, to the 'destroy-PL' campaign. To feed his illness, to escape form the reality he had opposed, he turned against his friends and against his own ideas...
...keep their German shepherds mean, hungry and on the alert for escapees, East German police at the Berlin Wall feed the guard dogs just once every 48 hours. The only trouble with such severe rationing is that the dogs themselves often develop a hankering for a bigger bone in the West. In the past year, at least three have slipped the leash to swim or dash into West Berlin...
...from her pituitary gland, which causes the womb to contract and hastens recovery from childbirth. Even more important, women who have nursed are less likely to develop breast cancer. Yet for all these advantages, only two out of every five U.S. mothers give their babies the opportunity to breast feed...