Word: feed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asking anyone to see a straw behind his ear. Next day, when photographers snapped and clicked all over Dapplemere, Dewey firmly set his usual limitations, for Candidate Dewey is very much aware of what the camera has done to U.S. politicos. He or his family would don no overalls, feed no chicks, milk no cows, pitch no hay. In white shirt, neat grey trousers, and brown tie carefully in place though the temperature was 90, Dewey for three hours patiently posed for shots showing him only as a spectator-farmer. Typical authorized shot: Dewey standing by, with hands...
China's farmers had survived the invasion, migration, abuse by their own politicians, with their wives and children had hacked out such monumental works as the Burma Road, great runways for U.S. planes. Yet they had continued to feed China. China's guerrillas, Communist and Nationalist, had fought with old rifles, broadswords, grenades melted down from rice kettles, fled again & again, attacked again & again...
Tomorrow night we are going to have a time. We are having a pre-commissioning banquet at the Harvard Club. There's going to be a big feed (on plates, too) and then the boys are going to put on a show. I tried to get Chick Henn, the Toastmaster, to let me render the poem I recited at graduation from good old Tizdale High. Mr. Henn thought that the program was long enough already. He said that if I had spoken to him sooner he would have been glad to use me. Remember, Ma, how I recited...
...eggs had only fair results. For one thing, housewives could not understand why the egg price had to stay up at 55? a dozen, when millions of eggs were going bad for lack of buyers. Then WFA sold 100 of the piled-up carloads at $30 each for livestock feed. Critics saw a major scandal. Why, they demanded, were eggs that WFA had bought for something like $6,000 a carload dumped as cattle feed rather than dehydrated or stored? WFA's answers...
...Both processing plants and storage houses were awash with eggs. The eggs sold for feed were unfit for human consumption but would help relieve a critical feed shortage...