Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gene Robertson hadn't left his room for three days. In fact, he only got out of bed to exercise (touch your toes ten times, do seven push-ups) and to eat Chinese food which his roommate brought...
...Love's Labour's Lost today.") A Yalie, who had somehow heard of Gene's plan sent him a Care package with a letter of encouragement. Gradually, Gene began to vary his diet, and at the end of a week, was familiar with Chinese, Armenian, French, and Greek food. He read The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, U.S.A., all of Marlowe's plays, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse, and a book by Erich Fromm. He was vastly impressed by Gertrude Stein's fear, at the age of fifteen, that soon she would have no more books to read...
Arriving in Warsaw in June 1958, quiet, spectacled Abe Rosenthal faithfully reported the effects of the Wladyslaw Gomulka regime's relaxation of the Stalinist-type controls that had long choked Poland's political, economic and cultural growth. But when, beginning with a food crisis in October, Gomulka began tightening the economic screws again, Rosenthal reported that trend with equal accuracy. Filing stories that the heavily censored Polish press dared not print, Rosenthal disclosed that the Soviet Union was sending meat to Poland to meet the food shortage. He wrote a complete account of the denunciation by the Soviet...
Such nondurable goods as clothing, food and gasoline still account for two-thirds of the consumer's purchases, reached a sales total of $12 billion in October. Bigger gains have been run up in the durable field (see chart), where October sales hit $6.3 billion, up 17% over last year and nearly 10% over September. The durables got a hefty boost in October from soaring sales of Detroit's 1960 auto models, will probably level off this month because of a shortage of cars caused by the steel strike...
Booth Led Boldly. Vachel began in Jacksonville, Fla., provisioned with a packet of poems and no money. For two months he wandered to the Northwest, trading poems and talk for food, announcing to startled householders that "I am the sole active member of the ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back in Springfield, townspeople snickered; later he was to say, "People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical...