Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help. He has curbed the power of his anti-French Interior Minister, Taieb Mehri, and fired his Minister of Youth and Sports, Azouz Rebai, for using his position to inflame Tunisian youth. He has repeatedly ignored Communist overtures, and only accepted a $250,000 Soviet shipment of medical supplies, food and clothing for Algerian refugees in Tunisia (estimated at from 20,000 to 40,000) on the condition that no Russian be allowed a hand in their distribution...
...months ago Ceylon was struck by a major natural disaster. Blinding monsoon rains washed half a million people from their homes and breached 500 of the earthen irrigation tanks that the civilization of antiquity bequeathed to the cultivators of the island's food crops. U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Gluck called on Washington for emergency help. Flocks of helicopters from the aircraft carrier Princeton dropped food that saved the lives of hundreds and, incidentally, gave the U.S. a needed boost in popular esteem...
Viewed by more than 100,000 gallerygoers yearly, the Freer Chinese bronze collection includes axes, swords and daggers, basins, wine cups and pitchers, clapperless bells, mirrors and food vessels. Freer had accumulated 725 pieces; John Ellerton Lodge, the first director, and his successor Archibald Wenley, added some 140 more, stuck rigidly to Freer's high standards. Experts estimate that some of the bronzes go back to the Shang Dynasty (1766-1122 B.C.). While their quality and style vary, Alan Priest, Far East curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, puts all in a single category: "Magnificent...
AEROSOL-DISPENSED FOODS will be selling at rate of 1 billion cans a year by 1965, says M.I.T.'s Dr. George Fuld, assistant professor of food engineering. Food was contained in but few of the more than 350 million aerosol-type containers sold last year, but food firms are working hard to spray dozens of products (.e.g., pancake mix, barbecue sauce, soda-mix flavoring), hope to surge forward when government approves pressure chemicals...
...year ago Jimmie was prowling the back alleys of Los Angeles, collecting Coke bottles to pad out his food budget. A small-town boy from Washington, he picked up a smattering of guitar while he was in the Air Force, and after his discharge he started touring the West Coast's less-than-first-water water holes. His darkest hour came in the Elks Club in Wenatchee, Wash. The three other hillbillies in his four-billy band were delayed in the hills; alone, Rodgers faced some 40 disappointed Elks. "I started strumming so hard it brought deep blisters...