Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live down here in Texas and our bees are so big we use 'em for primary trainers at Randolph Field. But sting a man four times? Don't let Sam feed you that! They only sting once, in the orthodox manner, and then quietly...
Dahl's latest is full of crudely, shrewdly drawn glimpses of Back Bay folk and subway riders, the people who feed the Boston Common pigeons and the suburban firemen who are forever rescuing treed cats. Some of the cartoons are local jokelets which only Bostonians are apt to appreciate. At the book's end is one of Dahl's rare political gibes. It begins by noting that Mayor James M. Curley, who used to sue almost every time his name was mentioned in print, had been sentenced to jail for war-contract frauds. There follow six blank...
Jack Hoffman, a farm boy from Ida Grove, Iowa, bought a calf last year for $50. To feed his calf, a purebred white-faced Hereford named T. O. Pride, he paid out another...
Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo had already waltzed his way through wage raises from the movie magnates and hotelmen. Last week it was the turn of the record companies to feed the kitty...
...belief that the stampede would slash future demands for feed, corn prices dropped 32? a bushel. Wheat was down also, along with oats. By week's end, the Dow-Jones commodity-futures index had fallen seven points, the biggest since 1933 when the index was started...