Word: cater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every year, when spring rains start the bluegrass sprouting, some high-strung U.S. race horse suddenly gets the attention usually reserved for movie stars and .400 hitters. Servants cater to his whims, columnists dog his hoofsteps, and genealogists start excavating the deepest roots of his family tree. He has a name-in 1961 it was Carry Back, last year it was Ridan-but to railbirds he is always known simply as Mr. Big: the favorite for the Kentucky Derby...
...suites, improve the lighting in the junior common room, and particularly, make some changes in the House dining hall. Believing that a House should be a place "in which persons doing and hearing things can do and hear them," he would like to emphasize the House's willingness to cater to undergraduate curiosity in cultural fields not included in the University's regular academic curriculum. (A favorite example of this sort of project is the movie-making venture of a group of Dunster residents last spring.) In Mr. Stewart's view, one of the most praiseworthy attributes of the House...
...Omelet Period. Among those who can afford it, the new impulse is: when in doubt, cater. The kind of entertainment offered varies across the country. A Washington, D.C., firm called Parties Unlimited has about a dozen basic-package parties, ranging in theme from Prehistory (with paper dinosaurs as individual favors) to Outer Space (a launching pad with rocket balloon for centerpiece). Last November it supplied the circus decorations for Caroline and John Kennedy Jr.'s joint birthday party at the White House. Average cost for a complete party, including extras, for 20-24 children...
...trade a service to the community and apparently makes no money on it. The COOP keeps people coming into the store for books but makes its big money in other merchandise. The Harvard Bookstore specializes in prints and paper-backs, Barnes and Noble's in review outlines; both stores cater to a large non-University clientele. In brief, savings afforded to students would be significant if the textbook middleman were eliminated, but none of the middlemen feel they would suffer...
...claims Burns; their differences are institutional and ideological. The power fulcrum of the presidential parties is the national convention, where they dominate rank-and-file delegates. "The Robert Tafts and the Lyndon Johnsons usually do not win at Chicago or Philadelphia." The Electoral College compels the presidential parties to "cater to the urban masses and their liberal dogmas." For leadership, they draw from the ranks of big-city lawyers, Eastern financial executives, academicians (Republican examples: Elihu Root, Henry Stimson, John Foster Dulles, Douglas Dillon). These parties are generally internationalist, favor activist government, are concerned with broad "way-of-life" issues...