Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl on his right placed the food on a plate and passed the plate to her right. This first plateful then continued around the table, through twelve hands, and returned, almost, to the starting point; that is, to Vag. The epitome of chivalric behaviour, he graciously declined, and returned it to the girl who had passed the plate to him. She raised her eyebrows above the rims of her glasses and exclaimed, "You are ruining the system!" A conservative and Gov major, Vag accepted the plate with the ham, pinapple, and spinach. But he decided to ignore the food...
Members of the Inter-House Food Committee, established by the Student Council last spring to improve the meals served in College dining halls, reported this week that they still had not tabulated the results of a food poll taken in the Houses early in June...
...member of the Food Committee this week blamed the group's inaction on its chairman, Council member David K. Sirota '56. Sirota, however, complained that the other committee members have shown themselves unwilling to work on the polls...
...province of Natal, a twelve-year-old girl lay ill for months subject to fits and spells of moroseness. Neither a doctor's drugs nor a witch doctor's charms did any good. Little Mavis Sithebe seemed to lose the will to live, took almost no food or drink for two weeks, was in a coma most of the time. One day, according to her tearful mother, "she just closed her eyes and died." Without bothering to examine the body, the district surgeon issued a death certificate. The family sent for the hearse, only to learn that...
...Talbot made his rounds, he found that the trouble among dwindling breeds was almost always man, and that there was generally some factor involved besides mere competition for land and food. Rhinos, for instance, are persistently hunted all over Southeast Asia because they are believed to have medicinal value. The Chinese consider powdered rhinoceros horn a powerful aphrodisiac (it is not), and will pay $2,500 for a single horn. Other parts of the animal, too have honored places in the Asian pharmacopoeia. Cups made of rhino horn detect poison by shattering to bits or by making the poison bubble...