Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team's banquet last night at the Harvard Club, the players named this year's captain, defensive tackle Chuck Durst, the winner of the Crocker award, signifying Harvard's team's most valuable player...
Well said, Sam. Belly may have become a derogatory word in modern times, but Johnson properly viewed it as the locus and focus of gustatory enjoyment and sensual wellbeing. Still, Johnson was at a beggar's banquet compared with the modern diner's choice of delectations: ingredients, recipes and techniques from the kitchens of the world. Not least of these blessings, to a Johnsonian, is the cornucopia of culinary literature. A good cookbook is a perpetual feast, and this year's table is well laden...
...written more than a cookbook: his 517-page tome is both an essay on the culinary philosophy of his country and an explanation of the cultural background of its foods. Along the way, he shows in words and excellent artwork the basic repertory, from sushi to a gala banquet consisting of as many as 30 small portions...
...stride. In fact, Jimmy Connors hardly seemed to notice he was in China at all. He spent the five days of his visit playing and practicing, sleeping and eating, dining on the all-American peanut butter he had brought from home. Only grudgingly did he attend a banquet in the players' honor. There was, however, at least one exotic object Connors took in: the 7-ft.-long $8,750 check he received for winning the singles finals against Teltscher...
...fifth seed in the Eastern Regional tournament and will meet Brown, seeded fourth, in Providence on Wednesday. The teams also met three times last year, once in the regular season, once in the Ivies, and once in the Easterns... ...The team and coaches attended the Ivy league tournament banquet last night at Kline Towers in full Halloween regalia...