Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, Lawyer Catherine Stevens, 37, wife of the Senate majority whip, Alaska's Ted Stevens, occasionally uses convenient Secret Service agents as baby sitters for her six-month-old daughter. She once breast-fed her in a room beside a presidential banquet. Mr. Reagan signed a menu for the infant. Even board rooms contain more than the usual number of maternity business suits these days. The senior officers' dining room of a New York banking concern, where executives entertain clients at lunch, was recently over whelmed by pregnant women. Said one female executive: "They thought at first it was something...
...HARVARD WOMEN'S SWIM TEAM goes out to eat, they always do it in a big way, and after trouncing Yale they dined in especially fine style. Courtesy of BETTY IPPOLITO--last year's softball captain--the entire team descended upon the Ippolito restaurant in Connecticut for a lavish banquet consisting of eggplant parmesan, sausage and meatballs, salad coleslaw, potato salad, breads, chocolate cake, carrot cake and pitches of beer. Not contest to totally satiate the aquawomen, Mr. Ippolito disappeared into the kitchen where he made eggplant parmesan and meatball sandwiches for the short file back to Cambridge. "You always...
This large-scale disobedience did not please President Kirkland, and two days later he suspended for six months the organizers of the illegal banquet. Pickering Dodge, Class of 1823, who kept a diary of his class's antics, wrote "they left Cambridge amidst the cheers of their applauding classmates...
...been associated with the ACLU's Massachusetts chapter for more than a decade. Horner has conducted several studies related to civil liberties, including two on working women. Robert Palmer, a Polaroid employee who helped develop that company's affirmative action program, also received an award at the presentation banquet last Sunday. The awards, established after the death last August of ACLU founder Roger N. Baldwin '04, will be presented every year...
Brezhnev, who in previous weeks had artfully presented the Soviet Union as the superpower genuinely interested in peace, was expected by some to use the banquet at the Bonn summit to present a new idea to encourage the antinuclear weapon movement that has mobilized millions of Western Europeans in opposition to the deployment of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles. Holding the sheaf of white pages far from his body so that he could read the large-type Cyrillic characters without his eyeglasses, Brezhnev at first seemed to confirm his audience's suspicions by announcing in his heavy, measured...