Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. Butler came a promise of continued stiffening of bank credit and an indication-certain to raise a din from the Laborite opposition-of cutbacks in food and housing subsidies, public works and other aspects of the Labor-fostered welfare state. Butler called it a program to "expand success and curb excess." "I did not know the horse would be so excitable when it saw the oats of freedom," said Rab Butler, less apt at figures of speech than figures of finance. "We need to prune back our roses to get better blooms...
...instead faces the economic problems of the world's underdeveloped peoples. In Let's Join the Human Race he outlines a plan for a giant International development Authority, similar to this country's T.V.A. Clearly, the Cold War had driven Barr and others to Asia, where the need for food and medicine overshadowed vague plans of politized federation...
...tall Lowell House senior hid himself on the Queen Elizabeth the night of June 15 as it departed from New York. From then, until it docked in Southhampton four days later, Hurst subsisted on food purchased at snack bars...
...Lower testified in divorce court that her husband thought more of his dogs than he did of her, claimed that he slept with three of the beasts at the foot of his bed complained: "When I asked him to buy groceries, he brought home a bag of dog food instead...
...Columbia. The guide took them on a long detour through the land of the Flatheads, who like other tribes found York the most interesting member of the expedition. Crossing the snowclad Bitterroot Mountains' Lolo Trail, they ran out of food in the wilderness, in desperation ate their horses to keep alive. Emerging on the western slope, in Idaho's Weippe Prairie, they gorged on camas bulbs (which made them sick) and dog meat (which they found surprisingly good). On the banks of the Clearwater River they built canoes and floated down the Clearwater and the Snake...