Word: starch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet three, black-helmeted, wearing the Iron Cross at his throat, Schlieben was a beaten man. His flabby, worried face was a tired grey; his grey-green greatcoat was mud-splotched and a mass of wrinkles. The starch had gone out of both the man and his clothes...
...judging the sufficiency or insufficiency of the diets of all peoples, and translated this into an ideal American diet. The diet, for one person, for one day: Ten ounces of grain products, such as bread and cereals. Slightly more than one pint of milk. A half pound of starch-rich vegetables, such as potatoes or yams...
...Tropical countries need airports and sanitation and more developed plantations and agricultural processing plants. They can pay in cheap cellulose and starch and specialty fruits and vegetables...
...group Dr. Cutting does not blame for being fat: the starch-fed people among the poor, who eat bread, beans and spaghetti beyond their caloric needs because they cannot afford the less fattening foods...
Herbert Marshall's Bond Street voice and general air of bemused gentility make a perfect foil for George Sanders' playing of the brutal genius. One of the few cinemactors with any real presence, Sanders has for years been using it to put starch into supporting parts and B pictures. The Moon & Sixpence gives him his first big chance. It also puts his fine performance in a vacuum...