Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They seem as familiar to him as stations on a commuter run in Connecticut. Then, listening to him self, he stops and smiles apologetically. "And to think that when I was growing up in Henning, Tennessee, it used to be a big deal to get a lift on a feed truck to Memphis!" The phenomenal success of Roots has not so much changed Haley's life as it has obliterated it, giving him a new and often uncomfortable persona as if he were seeing himself in a strange, distorting mirror. "It's like a kaleidoscope, a whirlpool into...
...Soviet Union. I think the Chinese were quite clear in pointing out in their recent visit that they want American technology--particularly in the agricultural sphere--to try to wean away the 80 per cent of the Chinese population which is now engaged in agricultural production to feed the one billion Chinese...
Dugger points out in her piece that TVA has improved its environmental record, citing its commitment to land reclamation. But the overall record is still abominable. TVA remains the single largest consumer in the U.S. of strip-mined coal, which it uses to feed its 12 fossil fuel power plants. These plants contaminate the air and water at a rate that places TVA, according to the Council on Economic Priorities, at the top of the 15 largest American utilities in air and water pollution. In 1975, TVA received an order to comply with the Clean Air Act, but the company...
What follows is much more than simply another anatomy of a January-June mismatch. In Malamud's world, acts have consequences, mindless pleasures lead to reflective pain. Things start badly. Dubin takes Fanny on a quick trip to Yenice, hoping to feed on her vitality and youth, and gets the callow treatment he deserves. Stung, he returns home and holes up for a long, bitter winter of dis content: "He fought winter as if it were the true enemy: if he tore into it the freeze would vanish, his ills be gone, his life, his work, fall into place...
...most of Saturday afternoon at Walter Brown Arena, it could not. Only Mike Watson's second-period wrist shot off a beautiful feed from George Hughes eluded Eli goaltender Keith Allain as Yale knocked off Bill Cleary's win-starved squad...