Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Told of the surrender at Xieng Ngeun, the Red battalion on the Plaine des Jarres promised its own answer at noon the next day. The loyal troops surrounding them gave their future brothers-in-arms food and water, fraternized openly. Vigilance relaxed. And when the loyal troops awoke next morning, they found the Reds had decamped during the night, taking their women and children with them...
...three years, Ceylon's frail-looking Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike has needed all his considerable skill at compromise to hold together his United Front coalition. Chief threat: the unsettling presence in his Cabinet of pro-Communist Food and Agriculture Minister Philip Gunawardena...
...square miles is under cultivation, although two-thirds of the 190 million people live from agriculture. Population density is only 24 to the square mile (v. 54 in the U.S.), but millions go hungry. Farm productivity per man-hour is less than one-fifth that of the U.S., food output barely keeps pace with population, and most of the 20 countries must import food...
...Bolivia, where 500,000 peasant families have taken over land since 1952, about 60% of the food is imported...
Dainty June danced 3,000 hours-four straight months-and came in for a large share of the prize money. After the promoters docked her for laundry, food, extra coffee, she pocketed only $50. But, she felt, she had also won more-a human test...