Word: catsup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each year brings new delights and surprises for the Dillingers. Last December, it was the Christmas pageant in costume, staged by the Danis. As the drama proceeded, it became clear that the tribespeople were portraying not the Nativity in Bethlehem but Christ's Crucifixion, complete with catsup for blood. When it was over, a Dani chief explained, "Why not? Jesus was born to die for us on the Cross, so it's all the same thing." The Dillingers understood. It is difficult not to admire the zeal of the Dillingers and thousands of other missionaries who have dedicated...
Like a child trying to force catsup out of a newly opened bottle, the Harvard field hockey team needed a whole lot of shaking, pounding, frustration and anticipation before it could score a goal in yesterday's shutouts of Bentley College and Boston University on Soldiers Field...
...saved local school authorities $300 million by instituting several key changes. Among them: offering only three main types of lunches (preschool, elementary and secondary) instead of five; reducing the minimum allowable size of a meal; lowering the minimum nutritional requirement; and allowing certain alternatives to meat and vegetables. Although catsup was not mentioned by name, the regulations did state that a catsup-like concentrate would qualify as a vegetable-so long as it was served with a healthy portion of another real vegetable, a point that got lost in the general handwringing...
...glass of milk. The story was picked up by TV news and papers across the country. The New York Times's front-page headline: U.S. ACTS TO SHRINK SCHOOL LUNCH SIZE IN ECONOMY MOVE. The merits of the controversy got covered with catsup. Scoffed Pennsylvania Republican Senator John Heinz, a scion of the catsup-making family: "This is one of the most ridiculous regulations I ever heard of." The final straw came when Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, South Carolina's Ernest Hollings and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, were photographed staring with distaste...
...result, the subject was not broached in the President's Sept. 24 budget address. The following day Stockman blasted the proposed regulations as "a bureaucratic goof and Block formally announced they would be pulled back for further study. Added Stockman tactlessly: "I don't think the little catsup episode is going to have any great significance...