Word: food
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Suspicion Created. The Administration's proposal has its confusing points. Chief of these is the relationship between the proposed welfare system and the $1 billion federal food program that Nixon sponsored last spring. According to the new program, families who accepted federal assistance would not be eligible for federal food stamps. Said Nixon in his message to Congress: "For dependent families there will be an orderly substitution of food stamps by the new direct monetary payments...
...basic staples include French-style bread, squash and pork fat. "Actually, this may not sound like it is very good, but they have their own way of preparing it, and I think it's good-tasting," he said. But later, whenever the TWA hostess offered a choice of food on the flight back to the U.S., Frishman said, "I don't care-as long as it's not pork fat and pumpkin." Lieut. Colonel James Robinson Risner (TIME Cover, April 23, 1965), who was shot down over Thanh Hoa later that year, was one of four...
...gnawing holes in buildings and contaminating food, Texarkana's rats cause about $3 million of damage a year. With their eleven internal parasites and 18 kinds of fleas, they expose people to rat-bite fever, murine typhus, bubonic plague and other diseases. Yet the city's residents have become appallingly adapted to the rats. As one retired Negro farmer casually puts it: "They play like ants behind my house...
...Worse, the city did not collect trash until last week and is still unable to enforce its rudimentary sanitation laws; much of the population cannot afford even minimal fines. As a result, vacant lots have sprouted moldering mountains of rubber tires, empty cans, cardboard boxes and putrefying scraps of food. The rats love...
...PARTIES: People have a surprising liking for large banquets, conventions and cocktail parties. One explanation for this may be that it seems a highly efficient way of exploiting the time allocated to social intercourse. One devotes oneself to the simultaneous consumption of food and people. To be the only guests to dinner is normally considered less flattering than to be invited with many others, perhaps because it suggests that your time is at such a low price that you are content to meet a couple of people at a time...