Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which sounds perhaps like the last days of the Roman Empire. Yet Americans are certainly eating more wisely than they did in the days when a hunk of steer and a stack of fries were the banquet supreme. Contemporary Americans favor lighter, shorter meals?a far cry from the XXVII-course banquets that forced the Romans to repair to imperial latrines to vomit between dishes ?in which every succulent leaf and crumb has been thoughtfully purchased, planned and prepared...
...their team banquet Sunday night, the field hockey team named juniors Ellen Seidler and Mary Howard as next year's captains...
...said Cambodia's Premier Pol Pot at a banquet in Peking some weeks ago. After the leader of Kampuchea, as Cambodia was renamed when its Khmer Rouge Communists seized power in 1975, visited China, some changes in Southeast Asia's most militantly xenophobic regime appeared. Obviously at Peking's urging, the government once again acknowledged, though not diplomatically, neighboring Thailand, with whom it had previously had little contact. Last month the country's Foreign Minister, Ieng Sary, came to New York City, where he played host at a United Nations cocktail party for 200 diplomats...
Palau's growing impact was demonstrated during the closing days of the Dominican crusade, when he flew to strife-torn Colombia to address a "Banquet of Hope" attended by 2,500 civic leaders. The principal guest, Colombia's President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen, showered Palau with congratulations. He responded with a blunt plea for the Colombian elite to turn to God and foster a spiritual reawakening. The Colombians who arranged the banquet, Palau told TIME, think that "the only ideology that can stop Marxist-Leninism or the disintegration of our society is Evangelical Christianity...
William Lewis '79, a second-year Viking, said yesterday's banquet "corresponds with traditional harvest festivals in which Norwegian people would build up spirit to maintain themselves throughout long and cold winters...