Word: nourishment
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...tenants, may not rack or stretch out the rents of their houses or lands, nor yet take unreasonable fines or money after the manner of covetous worldlings, but so to let them out that the inhabitants thereof may be able to pay their rents and to live and nourish their families and remember the poor...
...Mother Earth is rich enough to nourish every man in freedom," asserted Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology last night at a discussion meeting of the Boston-Cambridge Chapter of the American Association of Scientific Workers in Philips Brooks House...
...best they could think of was to send word around the wards and back rooms: don't give up hope. In spite of Harry Truman's firm stand against decontrol, they hoped there would be some meat to nourish voters for that journey to the polls...
This time the man in the barrel is Hero Bernard, who lives among bums and hobos in a cubicle of the "Willis Hotel" (rent: 35? a night). First he works in a cigar store where his fellow clerks nourish their starved egos by achieving the maximum of seductions at the minimum of expense. While they dream of the day when they can buy any woman they want, Bernard dreams of deathless love and literary fame. In his off hours he buries himself in the works of Dreiser, Ibsen, Keats and Sherwood Anderson, agonizingly hammers out his own youthful fiction...
...Vice," said Virgil, "is nourished and kept alive by concealment." Last week Yalta's guiltily prolonged secrecy continued to nourish distrust and disquiet among the nations...