Word: buttering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...socially undesirable sophomores, juniors and seniors had lost their place of instant acceptance and belonging, but at least the Major heard the unrestrained roar of all first-years in conversation morning, noon and night. He could rejoice with the triumphant undergrad whose well-flung butter pat hit his relatively inexpensive ceiling. As the decades went by, and the voices of women and minority students began to contribute to the din, I like to think the old boy was grinning under that mustache...
Unlike the pill-popping, shake-slurping diet crazes of the 1980s, the Zone has a digestible but unorthodox premise: staying trim depends mainly on eating meals in which 40% of the calories come from carbohydrates, 30% from protein and 30% from fat. Or, put another way: eat the butter; hold the bread...
...Anything they do they're going to put 'reform' on the end of it," he said. "All the intelligentsia urges this process on, [but] once you run out of money, [your candidate] is toast--butter...
...candidates, only Beth A. Stewart '00 has shown herself capable of leading Harvard's student government. The staff seemed to deliberately inflate Ben Hulse, a competent enough but rather bland council member, so as to avoid endorsing a candidate whom they see as overly attentive to the "bread and butter" issues of student life and neglectful of Burmese students and strawberry pickers. Our question for the staff: "If these simple student-oriented issues are so self-evident, how is it that the council has made so little progress?" Perhaps it is time for Harvard to have a council President...
...waitstaff is pleasant and helpful. Waitress Michelle Rossetto knows her way around monkfish and red wine (not necessarily together, though) and isn't afraid to share her personal opinion on Yucca con Mojo when asked. She arrives at the table bearing crusty bread with butter and small ramekins of salt and black peppercorns and refills the water glasses frequently. Discreet is the name of the game here--one second your water has dipped below the gulp mark and the next, voila, it's replenished without a bit of interruption to the conversation or jostling of an elbow. The waiters...