Word: maw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vegetables and meats that their masters regarded as waste. Turnips went up the hill; turnip greens stayed down. Whites slaughtered pigs for the ham, loin, bacon and spare ribs; Negroes made do with the pigs' feet ("trotters"), knuckles, tails, ears, snouts, neck, backbones, hocks, stomach (hog maw) and other innards. Today, as 200 years ago, the true "stone soul" dish is chitterlings, pronounced "chitlins." These are the small intestines of a pig, boiled, marinated, then smothered with "Louisiana hot sauce," served with turnip or collard greens, black-eyed peas and hot corn bread. The meal is traditionally topped...
...they are demanding taskmasters. Insatiable gluttons, they need a stream of billions of data to fill their maw. Their hunger for constant attention has caused the development of time-sharing systems that will let as many as 300 servants work for them simultaneously...
...parts-the bellows, the tubes, the pump-function as efficiently as they once did. The muscles have degenerated into blancmange. If, in an emergency, the demand for air rises abruptly from the idling requirement of six to eight quarts a minute to 100 quarts or more, the maw gulps like that of a beached carp. The heart throbs about two to three times its customary rate, pumping blood through pipes thickened by sedimentary deposits and grown inelastic with...
...Diggers of 1933 runs off on the screen, a string of dusty, fly-bitten Southwestern roadhouses and farms. (One booboo: the use of post-1934 dollar bills.) But repeated bursts of country-style music punctuating the bandits' grisly ventures, and a sentimental interlude with Bonnie's old Maw photographed through a hazy filter, aim at irony and miss by a mile. And this, if you please, was the U.S. entry in this year's Montreal Film Festival...
Wrong Course. The trouble began quietly enough, with a sit-in at the district office of the Boston Welfare Department by a group styling itself MAW -Mothers for Adequate Welfare. Complaining of hostility on the part of welfare workers and arbitrariness on the part of the department, about 30 MAWs locked themselves inside, announcing that they would not move until they had talked with Welfare Director Daniel Cronin. When police came to remove them, one woman screamed, a window was broken, and the crowd outside went on its mindless rampage...