Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hungarian border (where he saw a rebel shot down) to demand that the U.S. quota of arriving refugees be raised from 5,000 to 17,000. The Army reached fast, far and wide to find GIs of Hungarian descent, to include them in a special detachment mobilized to provide food, transportation and other services for Hungarians arriving at New Jersey's McGuire Air Force Base...
...wholesale deportation was not Russia's only technique for reducing a people. The Hungarian peasants who had been bringing food into Budapest and giving it freely to the workers were cut off, and all food was channeled through government distribution centers. Puppet Premier Janos Kadar tried desperately to get support behind his regime. He got nowhere with Imre Nagy (see above). And he was making little progress with ex-Secretary-General Bela Kovacs of the Smallholders' Party, or with the Peasant Party's Istvan Bibo. During one of Radar's bumbling appeals over Radio Budapest, studio...
...ignorance of the rest of the world; they had not even heard of the revolt in Hungary. "We knew nothing of the freedom in the South," said Nguyen. "We did not know that the French had already left South Viet Nam. They told us that here there was no food, that all the women had been forced to become prostitutes, and that the people made pies of the flesh of children. We did not know, but we did know that there was death up there in the North...
...seven-part, hourlong Bell Telephone series, TV proved that though there is nothing new under the sun, there is a good deal about it that is not generally known. Although it is 93 million miles from earth, the sun is a limitless source of the earth's food and power. It is so close that its light reaches earth in only eight minutes, whereas light from the next-closest star, traveling at 186,000 miles per second, takes four years. Every day it sends earth as much energy as mankind uses in a year. It would take 340 earths...
...goal," says Selye, "is certainly not to avoid stress. Stress is part of life. It is a natural byproduct of all our activities; there is no more justification for avoiding stress than for shunning food, exercise or love. But . . . you must first find your optimum stress level and then use your adaptation energy at a rate and in a direction adjusted to the innate structure of your mind and body." How? Dr. Selye boils down his prescription to a light jingle...