Word: graining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extent of the damage became known, Ershad appealed for international aid, including food, medicine, water-purification tablets and 3 million tons of grain. "Pray for us," he told visitors. The U.S. pledged some $150 million, much of it in grain, and $60 million was offered by Japan, Britain, France, Canada, Turkey and others. Local relief agencies did what they could. In a northern section of Dhaka, a group of engineering students raised $50, found a boat and poled their way along the main streets distributing food and medicine...
...yucky greige sludge might be filling, but good for you? Forget it. They sure believe her now. Today cholesterol-conscious consumers are eagerly lapping up not only oatmeal but oat bran and oat muffins and oat cookies -- in fact, just about anything with oats in it. The once reviled grain has suddenly emerged as the hottest health food around. People are sprinkling it on cereal, mixing it with fruit, baking it in cakes, dissolving it in shakes and swallowing it in pills. Declares Charles Rosenblum, owner of a natural-foods store in Manhattan: "People are interested in taking...
Still, the fuss over oats is unlikely to abate soon. One reason Americans find the grain prescription so attractive, says Researcher Anderson, is that it offers relief from the barrage of negative advice. "People get tired," he explains, "of being told what...
...even under the new, more equitable rules, says Korb, "anybody with a grain of sense could have beaten the draft." Some college students deliberately flunked their Army examinations. Others depicted themselves as conscientious objectors or fought the Selective Service System in the courts. An estimated 40,000 eligible males fled the U.S., most of them emigrating to Canada...
...original element, where people play hard and rough but keep to certain rules among themselves. It is interesting that most Watergate and Church committee revelations seemed to bother Bush less than the idea of taping a fellow gentleman's conversation. "I mean that's against my moral grain, to be taping somebody. I can remember standing down here in this building ((the White House)) when I heard about the White House tapes, and felt -- betrayed means that somebody owes me something and thus -- and I think it's broader than that." CIA covert actions do not arouse the same misgivings...