Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best fed nation in the world last week. For lack of red meat (or so they said), 1,750 Kentucky and West Virginia coal miners refused to work. In Philadelphia, hospitals and war plant cafeterias could find meat for only one meal a week. In the Texas Panhandle, where the ranges were overstocked with fat, grazing herds, it was hard to find even a hunk of stewing beef...
...hamster is slightly smaller than a guinea pig and looks like a toy bear. It eats practically anything: carrots, cabbage, lettuce, peanuts, dog chow, calf meal. It drinks no water, getting all the liquid it needs from leafy vegetables. At mealtimes, it stows all its food in huge pouches in its cheeks; later it empties the pouches and chews at leisure. Its only defects as a laboratory animal: it likes to fight other hamsters, and a hamster, if disturbed during a delivery, may eat her young...
Song for the Doomed. Shortly before noon the guards herded the few remaining able-bodied prisoners into the barracks of the weak and ill, saying that a noon meal would be served there. Two hundred and ninety-five men were crowded into that barracks-40 ft. by 120 ft.-jammed in and the doors locked after big tubs of soup had been brought...
Then, in one fantastic afternoon, Bess and Mary Margaret Truman found their placid way of life irrevocably snatched away. Mrs. Truman sobbed at the news of Franklin Roosevelt's death. She cooked her last meal in the apartment...
...picked to edit his London Evening Standard (circulation: 608,000) have been bright young journalists first, fiery leftists second. The advantages in each case were mutual-but temporary. The Beaver got a well-edited paper. For the leftists, the Standard was a soapbox, a springboard-and a handsome meal-ticket. So long as they could agree on "fundamentals" (Churchill as a war leader, aid to Russia) the wary alliance lasted. Last week the last of the three leftists gave...