Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life that faces Red China's peasantry in the communes is regimented beyond the dreams of ancient Sparta. Each commune, averaging about 21,000 inhabitants, is ruled by a party committee that controls everything from food distribution to funerals. Organized into work brigades, the inhabitants of the communes mostly have no set jobs, can be shunted on a day-to-day basis from farm work to military or industrial duties. Ultimately, private property is to be utterly abolished and already the most "advanced" communes have compelled the peasants to surrender the personal garden plots they were allowed to keep...
...getting in a belated harvest; housewives, blinking happily at the unfamiliar sun, pounded away at the backlog of laundry that had built up during Communist barrages. Off Liao-lo Beach an endless parade of vessels, ranging from huge, wallowing LSDs down to motorized junks, disgorged the sinews of war-food, oil, ammunition, spanking-new U.S. -made 155-mm. howitzers and replacement tanks...
...giant. Asia does not want to continue as a starving continent living on the verge of subsistence." The giant, said Nehru, had been kept down for 150 years. "Tremendous urges are coming up. These needs are there and are justified. Who are we to criticize if people want better food, better clothing or better living conditions? All of you want them to have these...
...Food will be cooked and served inside the conclave area, and cardinals will sleep in hastily partitioned three-room apartments. Only condition under which a cardinal may leave: serious illness certified to by three physicians, who are also locked up for the conclave's duration...
From earliest childhood, Stagg recalls, "we used to give one or two cents as our church contribution." Food was plain but plentiful: home-grown vegetables dominated the table, eked out with home-fattened hogs (whose bladders "Lon" used for "pigskins" and ball tossing). Lon swam and skated, got into one-hand and three-hand baseball...