Word: cafeteria
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About 25 pickets paced in front of the University's nine gates, and a cafeteria, the Johnny Parsons Club, closed down completely. The bed-making service was almost normal in other dorms, but some cafeterias had Hotel Administration students working as chefs...
...special occasions, the Colleges make a big bid for gentility. A week ago, Calhoun replaced its tin trays with crockery, dressed its cafeteria staff in elegant black uniforms, and spectacularly dished out unspectacular food while a string trio played dinner music. A lady dispensing coffee obsessed with her duty to maintain a polished atmosphere, apologized for serving coffee cups on plates rather than saucers to students who usually balanced their coffee on trays. Dress for meals at Yale is not so consistently formal as it is in the Houses. Ties and coats are required for the main meal...
...increase the ratio of gentile to Jew in the remaining classes so that gentile students no longer would feel outnumbered. Oddly enough, the experiment was not extended to those school activities where racial prejudices were most apt to crop out. In the gym, the library and the cafeteria there was no line drawn between Jewish and non-Jewish students; they played on the same teams, acted in the same school plays and attended the same school dances...
...response from Adventist youth was immediate and enthusiastic. The first 150 left their work at home, paid their own transportation, bought their own uniforms ($8), paid for their beds (50? a night) and their cafeteria-style meals (30?to 60?). "Colonel" Dick (who served in the Marines during World War I) worked and drilled them from 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. each day. The course was heavy with subjects like first aid, military sanitation, treatment of chemical warfare casualties. But it also included large doses of combat intelligence, map reading and military courtesy. In addition, there was "character guidance...
...business it could handle; the cafeteria was jammed. At the television sets in the lounge, a large cosmopolitan-looking crowd watched the antics of two children's puppets named Foodini and Pinhead, later switched to the ball game at the Yankee Stadium. Weary John Chang went to sleep sitting up on a couch near the bar, his chin resting on his briefcase...