Word: ating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lunch consisted of clearing a space in a nearby warehouse. setting a table for twenty-five, and preparing enough spaghetti to feed an army. We ate pasta and drank wine for three hours...
...visit, before heading up to British Columbia and, this Friday, back home. Sumptuous feastings? There was everything from maple soufflé and rack of lamb (and 1966 Château Lafite-Rothschild) to a hot heap of chiles rellenos and refried beans. Banquets? In Los Angeles, the Queen ate papaya and heard George Burns tell jokes about octogenarian sex; at an official dinner in Golden Gate Park, goose-liver quenelles in pheasant broth were followed by the San Francisco Opera and Symphony performing a bit of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. A run on velvets and silks? For just...
...Dieters ate their desserts with a little less guilt last week. Thanks to the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., women who are 5 ft. 2 in. and tip the scales at 140 could consider their weights to be right on target, as could 180-lb. men who measure 5 ft. 10 in. For the first time since 1959, the giant insurance company revised its widely used height-weight guidelines, moving them upward by as much as ten to 15 lbs. in the case of short men and women. The news brought sighs of relief from gourmands but cries of alarm from...
...Cancer Society praises popcorn as one of the "eleven things that don't cause cancer." (Among the others: a good laugh, exercise, fruit and vegetables.) Says James Fowler of American Pop Corn Co., Sioux City, Iowa: "If you had asked a lady a few years ago whether she ate popcorn, she'd have told you, 'No, it's too fattening.' Ask the same lady today and she'll tell you it's part of her diet...
...most of last night's ate ECAC semifinal game, it looked like Harvard hockey fans who left the Garden early hadn't missed much...