Word: cafeteria
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...dungeon of airless, lightless, unfurnished, iron-doored stone cells into which convicts were thrown as punishment for even the most trivial offenses. San Quentin still shaved prisoners' heads and dressed them in numbered uniforms. Duffy abolished both practices. Men were fed out of buckets. Duffy installed a cafeteria and hired a dietitian...
...years, George has seen thousands of children come & go. He lent them money and bought them presents. Often he paid for school equipment out of his own pocket, and at Christmas he would buy a paper mural of the Nativity for the cafeteria, "just because I figured it was a good thing for the kids to look...
...week, music piped in for 15 minutes of every hour, a cafeteria with low-priced good food. (There used to be a free mid-morning snack of milk and vitamin-enriched peanut-butter sandwiches, but the staff began to look like sofas.) On the walls of individual offices, and in the corridors, hang paintings by such modern masters as Renoir, Braque and Chagall. "My God!" cried an astounded visitor. "Is this a place of business or a girls' seminary...
...spent nearly $25 million to build a Westchester-on-the-Rhine on several acres of apple orchards and woodland in Bad Godesberg, a suburb on the southern edge of Bonn. For HICOG headquarters, there is a seven-section concrete and glass structure with a 1,500-seat cafeteria and a 100,000-volume library. Four miles away stands a cluster of new two-story apartment houses, 458 apartments in all, each furnished down to the last curtain, dessert spoon and teacup. They range from tasteful bedroom, living room, kitchen combinations for bachelors to four-bedroom duplexes, and offer three kinds...
Student waiters serve the food except on Sundays and during breakfasts when cafeteria style is the rule. Diners can usually got second helpings, but are limited to one glass of milk at dinner and two at lunch...