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Ever need a fact or quotation on "food and famine"? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this word. It represents a compilation of "single sentences" and/or "short paragraphs" from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term "food and famine," including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. This is not an encyclopedic book, but rather a collage of statements made using the word "food and famine," or related words (e.g. inflections, synonyms or antonyms). This title is one of a series of books that considers all major vocabulary words. The entries in each book cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This data dump results in many unexpected examples for "food and famine," since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a computer-generated linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under fair use conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain.

Familiar Quotations

Bolsters – "Back"

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.–Anonymous

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs.–Anonymous

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.–Honoré de Balzac

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.–Jean Baudrillard

The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.–William Douglas

Well now your back's going to hurt, cause you just pulled landscaping duty. Anyone else's fingers hurt? I didn't think so.–Happy Gillmore

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.–Jean Rostand

Back-wounding, calumny the whitest virtue strikes.–William Shakespeare

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born into the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.–Algernon Sidney

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.–Margaret Thatcher

• Prefaceiv
• Familiar Quotations1
• Bolsters – "Back"1
• Bolsters – "Brace"1
• Use in Literature3
• Bolsters3
• Bolsters – "Back"7
• Bolsters – "Bed"8
• Bolsters – "Brace"9
• Bolsters – "Buttress"10
• Bolsters – "Man"10
• Bolsters – "Pillow"11
• Bolsters – "Room"11
• Nonfiction Usage12
• Presidential Usage12
• Journalism Usage12
• Legal Usage13
• Governmental Usage13
• Patent Usage13
• Bibliographic Usage15
• Encyclopedic Usage19
• Lexicographic Usage25
• Index34