Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe girls no longer have to cope with the problems of onions at weekend meals, thanks to the efforts of the Annex Food Committee. Friday dinners, Saturday lunches and Saturday dinners will not include the vegetable, the committee decided recently. "It's about time," commented one Harvard student...
Teller's hectic schedule has damaged his health: suffering from ulcerative colitis, he takes daily doses of atropine and phenobarbital, sticks to a doctor-ordered diet, painful for a man who devours food with Hungarian gusto. But a damaged constitution has not damped his crusader's fervor. The late great Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi once said to him, with affectionate exasperation: "In my acquaintance, you are the only monomaniac with several manias." Princeton Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on both the A-bomb and the H-bomb, put it more truly. The essence of Teller's character...
...earth. On the seventh day the Russians reported as usual on the motions of Sputnik II but did not mention its famed passenger. Two days later Italy's Communist newspaper L'Unita reported that the dog had been killed by a drug in her last portion of food...
...follower of Sigmund Freud, founder of the Wilhelm Reich Foundation, lately better known for unorthodox sex and energy theories; of a heart attack; in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Pa., where he was serving a two-year term for distributing his invention, the "orgone energy accumulator" (in violation of the Food and Drug Act), a telephone-booth-size device which supposedly gathered energy from the atmosphere, could cure, while the patient sat inside, common colds, cancer and impotence...
Even on the narrow issue of measuring prices, the index is vulnerable. Food costs make up 30.1% of the market basket, but BLS does not check food stores on weekends, when most stores run their big sales and do most of their selling. BLS prices appliances in department stores, but not in discount houses, contends that discount prices are not really savings because they do not include delivery or service, although many discount houses now provide both. It asks auto dealers for an estimated selling price, does not check the deals that hard-bargaining buyers actually...