Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machine would do with a more lyrical type of writing. The quotation "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" was fed into the computer, which promptly translated it into Russian and then translated the Russian back into English. The results: "The ghost is ready, but the meat...
...same object are more or less yin or yang. Fruits are yin; so are vegetables, but they can be made yang enough to eat by cooking under high pressure; yangization. Eggplant is too yin to eat at all; you can tell it's yin because it's violet. Red meat is too yang. Brown rice contains yin and yang in almost perfect proportions for the human system. All you need to live is a little brown rice...
...leaders of Russia, sneered the Chinese, were "selling horse meat as beefsteak, displaying a lamb's head while actually selling fillet of dog." In Mao Tse-tung's somewhat mixed-up butcher-shop imagery, that meant that the Red meat of true Marxist-Leninism was still being supplanted by goulash a la Khrushchev...
...guarantees seamen specific amounts of food (meat every day), water and medicine, plus an eight-hour workday. Yet the work is still so dangerous that last year nearly 50% of all U.S. seamen suffered injuries.* Since ships are, in effect, monarchies afloat, seamen are also close to being indentured workers. Seamen have successfully resisted being covered by workmen's compensation, which pays only modest amounts for disability arising from employment. They revel in gambling for considerably larger awards through wide-ranging lawsuits...
...doubts. Johnson's "programs are designed to evade rather than confront the hard issues. He believes in consensus, not conflict. The barbecue school of politics is not based on any belief in redistributing wealth or disturbing anyone's existing privileges; rather, it presupposes there is enough meat, and gravy too, for everyone at the tables." Johnson's small-scale proposals on health, education and poverty are tied to a "neverending economic expansion," writes Shannon. If the economy falters or fails to expand very fast, those programs may not pay off and people will be soured on their...