Word: ates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes under the ice in Resolute Bay with Joseph Maclnnis, a Canadian expert on Arctic undersea life. Charles' eleven-day trip to Canada included dinner with Prime Minister Pierre and Margaret Trudeau in Ottawa, a dogsled ride at Frobisher, and a tour of Eskimo villages, where he ate raw seal liver and musk ox steak. After his icy dive, the game prince adjourned to dinner at a local hotel, where journalists serenaded him with a medley of songs. Not to be outdone, Charles assembled his personal staff and led them in a parody of the old English hymn Immortal...
...master of Lowell House, said that such a conception is "ridiculous." "I have been living in Houses steadily since 1948," Stewart says. "In all that time I would say there has been one change. As long as there was a separate table for faculty, a fair number came and ate together. When they dissolved it in the late '50s, instead of mixing with students, they just didn't come." Other than that, Stewart claims, there have been no changes in House life, whether pre-or post-1969, "I've found I've never been able to get faculty members over...
Three major developments ate into the food surplus between 1970 and 1972: a loss of momentum in the Green Revolution, which leveled off food grain production in Asia; an increasing demand from Europe and Japan for food grains and protein meals to produce the greater quantities of animal products demanded by the consumers in those countries; and program cutbacks in grain production in the United States, Canada, and Australia...
...peaceable times, a medieval life had more civilized compensations than smug modern man imagines. Until the great castle halls fell into disuse, master and servant ate congenially in common. At table (regularly spread with fresh linen), two people often shared a bowl, helping themselves with fingers. But a strict etiquette governed the sharing, and hands and nails were expected to be scrupulously clean. Plumbing in the larger castles, the authors say, was better than that of 17th century Versailles: every floor had a washing area-some with running water, even baths. Latrines were often conveniently perched out over the castle...
...said the organism, which affected more than 20 people who ate seafood newburg at Cabot and Whitman Halls, may be a rare variety of salmonella. "If a common strain of bacterium reacts in a common way it takes about 48 hours to identify; if less common, it takes longer," he said...