Word: meals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hill & Daler. In India, Aboo Nagha, 60, whose daily diet consists of one meal, three cups of tea, no alcohol, 25 cigarets, was honored at the Bombay Olympic Games for finishing a 26-mile marathon, deserted by his wife, who considered him "unsatisfying...
Telephones rang incessantly in the Latin Embassies in Washington. Ambassadors called ambassadors. Counselors called counselors. "How do you feel?" they asked. "Is your Government sending bicarbonate to kill the taste of that meal?" "Yes, it comes up my throat." "Exactly. Mine too. Like onions...
...meal" was the Pan American Union's decision last week to table the request of diplomatically isolated Argentina for a conference under the inter-American system of consultation. Only Argentina voted in favor. El Salvador (whose Government was unrecognized except by Honduras and Nicaragua) was not consulted. All the other hemisphere nations agreed, officially, that the Argentine request should be ignored...
...Brush after every meal, or at least after breakfast or lunch. Use two or three brushes, alternately...
...complex explanation boiled down to a grim fact: the productive miracle of industry was being outdone by the wasteful miracle of war. The shortages were still not at the front, but war was devouring the stockpiles faster than industry was replenishing them. Perhaps war was eating its last meal and would soon die of a surfeit-or perhaps not. Until the outcome was known more production was needed...