Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slurry is passed through a screen and centrifuge to remove fibrous material and insoluble carbohydrates. Then the protein is separated from the oil by commercial solvents, and dried. The result is a white, odorless, tasteless powder, which can be baked in bread or added to almost any food. Two ounces a day is enough to complete a man's diet, and the cost is only a few cents...
...President, buoyed up by the success of his personal diplomacy to date, intends to press hard for his new approach with Khrushchev this week. As he said in his TV talk with Prime Minister Macmillan in London, "There are millions of people today who are living without sufficient food, shelter, clothing and health facilities. They are not going to remain quiescent. There is just going to be an explosion if we don't help...
...Extended in a House-Senate compromise the Public Law 480 authority ($1.5 billion a year) to sell Government-owned surplus farm products abroad (often for soft currencies) for another two years. Authorized but not required: a start on an Administration-opposed food-stamp scheme for delivering $500 million worth of surplus to the U.S. needy...
...Cubans did not bar Dubois from the country. They just threatened to cut off his food. At the suggestion of a Havana radio commentator, the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers, whose membership includes cooks, waiters, barkeeps and hotel staffs, voted to deny Dubois their services "because of his attitude as spy, divisive agent and sworn enemy of the Cuban revolution." Snapped Dubois: "If they want war, I'll give them...
...quarters of a square mile) compounds housing eleven legations, an international force of 400 from eight countries held off some 25,000 wild besiegers for 55 days. A single determined assault would have smothered the defenders. The foreigners, mostly British, Russians and Americans, had little ammunition; they did have food (mostly pony meat), champagne from the legation cellars, water, and the certain knowledge that defeat meant death by torture. The grim defense showed the Boxers to be paper tigers. Though the peasants screamed, "Sha, sha [Kill, kill]," they left most of the fighting to the Empress...