Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flitting and stabbing day and night, sometimes fighting as long as 36 hours without food or water, crawling on hands and knees up sheer mountains, the end-running Marauders met the Japanese in obscure clearings with names like Walawbum, Shaduzup, Inkangahtawng, Miangkwan. This was the primitive Burma where tribesmen had often never seen a white mana harshly foreboding land of thunderous rivers and almost impassable jungles, where leeches clung to a man and drained his blood while stinking rot filled his soggy boots, where it rained 160 inches a year and nearly every Marauder shook with malarial fever...
Rojas has kept the support of his army officers with hefty pay raises, gifts of TV sets and cars, and post-exchange stores that sell at wholesale prices everything from Paris lingerie to U.S. food-freezers. And the opposing politicos of both parties are, by long tradition, well-bred, cultured, often wealthy men, not prone to lead revolutionaries to the barricades. Admitted one: "If you gave me 50,000 men, I still would not know how to capture the presidential palace...
...Lodha's temperature shot up from another attack of malaria. The next day it went down, then up again, then down. His fingers began to move slightly and, a few days later, his toes. Finally his eyes moved. A month later he could turn his head and swallow food. After several more months, his vision was restored, but he could not recognize his children for the changes that seven years had wrought in them. It took him a year to regain complete consciousness...
...less than two years in existence, was a spearhead of the reformed order of Dominican Observants. Its leader, the eloquent Fra Dominici, raised up against the New Learning the stern teachings of the church fathers: "Christ is our only guide to happiness . . . our father, our leader, our light, our food, our redemption, our way, our truth, our life." Fra Dominici exhorted the young monks: "As the years of tender youth flow by, the soft wax may take on any form. Stamp on it the impress not of Narcissus, Myrrha, Phaedra or Ganymede, but of the crucified Christ...
...food for Pri[s]oners and I the scap[e]goat...