Word: pork
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...fact it is. When Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," the reader is going to know it was in a boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered his coronary thrombosis, Manchester, you can bet, knew what he had for breakfast: "beef bacon, pork sausages, fried mush, and flapjacks." Statistics tumble on the reader's head like the rich chaos from Fibber McGee's closet. Who else would know that the average height of American women increased ½ in. between 1945 and 1954 (from...
...agriculture. People in developing countries eat roughly 400 Ibs. of grain per capita annually (barely more than the pound daily they need for survival), mostly in the form of bread or gruel; but an American consumes five times that amount, mostly in the form of grain-fed beef, pork and chicken. The industrial world's way of eating is an extremely inefficient use of resources. For every pound of beef consumed, a steer has gobbled up 20 Ibs. of grain. Harvard Nutritionist Jean Mayer notes that "the same amount of food that is feeding 210 million Americans would feed...
Other deficiency diseases can be equally deadly. Rickets, which results from a lack of vitamin D, can produce soft, deformed bones in children. Beriberi-caused by too little of the thiamin normally found in vegetables, liver, pork, eggs and whole grains-affects the heart, the circulatory system and the brain. Its victims are unable to remember and prone to confabulation, the concocting of stories to fill memory gaps. A lack of niacin (commonly found in brown rice, fish and meat) can produce pellagra, a deficiency disease characterized by the "four Ds": dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia and death...
...eating Shake n Bake pork in the Adams dining hall when Felipe M. Noguera '76, a member of the Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students, approached...
...Daniel Fitz-Gerald, chairman of San Diego-based Wickes Corp., a big retailer of furniture and building supplies, predicts that Congress will not long remain pliant if Ford starts whacking away at the budget in earnest: "He will discover that once he starts tampering with everyone's favorite pork barrel, you can lose some friends fast." Milwaukee Banker Neil Johnston predicts that double-digit inflation will continue for some years, no matter who is President. But Ford has at least a chance to make a fresh start, and will benefit for a while from business and congressional eagerness...