Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet Union to pay "in gold" for American relief sent to starving Russians in 1921-23. "I was in Russia in 1922," said Herter, who was Herbert Hoover's assistant at the time, "and I went down the Volga. The money which the Congress sent to buy food for the hungry people of Russia was a gift from the American people. You probably don't remember, because you were too young." Replied Kozlov: "I remember very well because I was hungry." Nixon broke in to say that Herbert Hoover had recently shown him a letter testifying...
...another 40%. Red China's government is now reporting droughts and pestilence and-in Kwangtung province-the "worst flood of the century" (TIME, July 6). And at the very moment that Shanghai was boasting that each of its inhabitants would be getting nearly four times as much food this year, travelers reported that even in the best hotels meat and eggs were hard to come by, and that in other cities the ration of meat, sugar and fish had been cut. As for Red China's great "leap forward" in steel, to a large extent accomplished by backyard...
Fortnight ago, at an "extraordinary meeting" in Shanghai, party secretaries from 37 major cities met with Vice Premier Li Hsien-nien to cope with a new crisis. Henceforth, the Vice Premier declared, city dwellers would start growing their own food on the "large tracts of land on the outskirts" of town. To outsiders, the announcement meant two things, one as grim as the other: 1) the start of the long postponed campaign to force the cities into the kind of anthill communes that now blight the countryside, and 2) tacit confirmation of the many reports that the people...
...Jidda he met his mutawwif-a professional guide who took Ahmed and 20 other Syrians under his wing for about $15 each, instructing them in the religious procedures required of a pilgrim and arranging food and lodging for the entire trip. Life used to be grim in Jidda during the ten days of the hadj, as heat-sick pilgrims squatted in the streets gathering strength for the 46-mile trek to Mecca. But newly rich Saudi Arabia has recently built a "Pilgrim City"-a roofed compound, equipped with food shops, electricity, running water and toilets. Here pilgrims wait...
...pilgrimage is one of the five "pillars" of Islam enjoined on all Moslems. The others: prayer, almsgiving, abstention from food or water during the days (but not the nights) of Ramadan, witness to the oneness of Allah and the pre-eminence of his prophet, Mohammed...