Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet; newly redecorated, this floor was reserved for the Eisenhower party and guarded by two burly cops from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. For lunch, the Eisenhowers went down one floor to the apartment of Hotel Manager Mike Biggs and his wife Eulalia. They hurried through fruit salad, stewed chicken, peas, mashed potatoes and a dish of pineapple sherbert. Then Ike and Mamie climbed out on the top of the hotel marquee to join the political brass in a review of the Ike homecoming parade...
Horrses to Warter. While she lived there, Lucille did her best to rid Jamestown of dullness. Sometimes she gilded reality by imagining that the family chicken coop was her palace ("The chickens would become my armies"). She remembers that she was always unmanageable in the spring. "I'd leave the classroom for a drink of water and never come back. I'd start walking toward what I thought was New York City and keep going until someone brought me home...
With feet, it is sheer physical strain. A campaigner is usually on his feet 12 to 14 hours a day, said Taft, and ends the day with a foot bath of warm Epsom salts. With food, it's the monotony. In the old days it was always chicken. At one time, he recalled wistfully, it was cold roast beef-until the price of beef went too high. Today it's ham-cold or hot, baked or boiled-but almost always ham, "frequently with raisin sauce." (Taft, delayed by a television appearance, missed the Lions' menu: filet mignon...
...Joseph Saccomano climbed to the belfry of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in The Bronx, and balanced there for an hour threatening to commit suicide. He ignored the pleas of priests, police and relatives. Then a photographer named Vincent Riccio looked upward and bellowed: "You're a chicken-livered, yellow phony . . . come on down and fight!" Snorting with rage, the would-be suicide scrambled down, was grabbed by the cops and toted off to have his head examined...
Miss Lillian Burdakin cites this as one instance of a general pattern in the difficult business of planning a college's meals. Wednesday continues the week's overall scheme, with a special dish such as roast beef or chicken. Then on either Tuesday or Thursday the dietician fills in with a lower cost meat, such as sausage or chicken...