Word: food
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm in Cassopolis, Mich., which has dairy cows and 10,000 laying hens. Another 1,400-acre Muslim farm is located in Albany, Ga. Says Muhammad-"What we have in mind is to purchase, wherever we can, better farm lands for our people, where they can grow their own food. We are scouting the Southwest for land...
...barely survive on deficient diets. Says Hollings: "Many is the time that friends have pointed a finger and said, 'Look at that dumb nigger.' The charge is all too often accurate. But not because of the color of his skin. He is dumb because we denied him food. Dumb in infancy, he has been blighted for life...
...larynx, protected by the Adam's apple, is an organ with three important functions. The valve-like flap at its top, the epiglottis, must close when anything is being swallowed, to keep food or drink from going into the larynx or down the windpipe. With the valve open, the larynx is part of the airway to the lungs. Within it are two folds, the vocal cords, which vibrate when air is exhaled. The vibration of the cords generates the basic sound that is modified by various mouth structures to produce speech...
MOST of the black colleges that I visited had all recently experienced some for of student protest and disruption. At one, over 600 students and sympathetic faculty members were expelled for a protest that began over a complaint of poor food in the cafeteria. At another, state police earlier in the spring had surrounded several buildings and fired thousands of rounds of ammunition into a dormitory after a student black power rally. Even though, or perhaps because, many of the students had natural hair styles the administrations of all the schools were definitely wary of anything that smacked of student...
MEANWHILE, back on the road. Towards the middle of July the full realization of what we had committed ourselves, to physically and psychologically, came thudding home with the dull throbbing quality of an empty stomach. Literally. While in Cambridge we had allotted ourselves $1.50 a day for food, drink, and bed. This was under the assumption either that things would improve as we raised more money or that it might be possible to hustle food from unsuspecting friends. Both of these assumptions proved false and nearly fatal...