Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India is a country where, by the reckoning of nutritional experts, half the population fails to get even a single square meal a day. Five years ago Jawaharlal Nehru's government discovered with alarm that India's population, increasing at the rate of 5,000,000 a year, was outdistancing food production. Nehru launched a five-year plan to I) increase food, and 2) decrease births by government instruction in birth control...
...could enjoy our meal after all the excitement, dinner was announced. It was simple fare, but nourishing: chili and salad served on paper plates by Wellesley girls. There was an atmosphere of merry anticipation all through dinner, because everybody knew that the square dance followed. And not only that, but the Scottish Highland Dancers were going to perform...
...several suggestions on how to eat less fattening meals, Stare stressed the importance of a large breakfast, because it elevates the blood sugar, which regulates the appetite. When the level of blood sugar is kept high, an individual feels less hungry. This objective can also be obtained, he continued, "by nibbling a short time before a meal...
...burglar, Joseph W. Duane, also claimed that he used swimming pools and showers at the University, and once in a while would get in line for a meal at a College dining room...
Before long Walt ran out of both money and credit. One day he realized that he had missed at least three meals in a row. He borrowed a camera, photographed some babies, took the $40 he earned and headed for Hollywood. Brother Roy, who had just been released from a TB sanatorium in Arizona, met him there, and they set up shop in the $5-a-month corner of a Hollywood real-estate office. In the next four years the Disney studios produced 24 cartoons in a series called Alice in Cartoonland and 52 more about Oswald the Rabbit...