Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move to replace "Food" with "Dining" was apparently designed to reflect the broader functions of department, including its catering service and several cash operations. Dining Services has a $15 million annual budget and 350 employees, said Assistant Director Benjamin H. Wolcott...
...Benjamin, age 8, climbs up into the kitchen sink for his eve- ning bath, as his sister Daisy climbs out. Rose throws a towel over Daisy, shampoos Benjamin, tells Davey and Joey to get pajamas on the twins...
...four smaller children file in from the outer room to present themselves to their mother before going to bed. They stall, ask for snacks. Benjamin whines about a cut finger...
...Benjamin, I'm going to shock you," Rose tells him. "I believe you're going to live...
Rose's apartment has two rooms, the kitchen and an all-purpose room where the seven of them sleep. Benjamin, Daisy and Sabrina sleep in the bed. Davey, Joey and Dino sleep on the floor. Rose takes the couch. They have no phone; the bathtub leaks; the ceiling is splotched with water stains. Yet this is the best place they've ever had. For a month before this, Rose and the children lived in a car, and bathing was carried out in Rose's girlfriend's apartment. Compared with then, Rose says, the sky's the limit these days...