Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle, and his conservative Finance Minister Antoine Pinay (a small-town tanner before entering politics) added two other anti-inflationary controls. To keep wages in line, they abolished the old system of pegging salaries to the cost-of-living index-though to compensate France's poor for increased food costs they decreed a 5.5% raise in the minimum wage. And by the removal of import quotas on a wide list of products. France's manufacturers would be exposed to so much foreign competition that it would be difficult for them to raise prices. Had these measures of "truth...
...Westerner recently returned from Peking suggests another reason for the paradox of record crops and ration cuts. He reported that the citizens of Peking, fearing the day when they will be herded into people's communes, have started hoarding food and gorging themselves in the city's renowned restaurants. By withholding food, the Reds are squeezing the city dweller into the communal mess hall. "When the private food hoards are gone and people cannot buy much on the local markets," the Western visitor reported, "they will be forced to eat in the community kitchens...
...Minister in Charge of Recovering Stolen Government Property. Castro will doubtless be the biggest voice in the land for some time to come, and he gave signs of capricious temper. On his orders, Havana was closed down until early this week by a pointless general strike that cut food supplies and kept nerves on edge...
...father of an Irish family on Staten Island carried home a beer bucket. His son Tom, 9, tried to sneak a quick swig, soon collapsed, unconscious. The bucket held scalding, near-boiling chowder, and the burn closed young Tom's gullet with scar tissue. Not a particle of food or a drop of liquid could pass through it into his stomach. So surgeons cut into his abdomen, made a hole in his stomach where they attached it to the muscle wall. For the rest of his life, Tom had to feed himself by chewing his food and spitting...
...ease, was pale pink and relaxed, with many convoluted folds, but bright red, smooth and tense when he became angry. Fright turned both Tom's face and his stomach pale. By shutting off the flow of gastric juices, depression made his stomach almost incapable of digesting food. Anxiety was the most stomach-damaging emotion, clearly linked with the formation of ulcers...