Word: dine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly, the lights went out-one of Bermuda's periodic power failures. In the eerie light of candles and battery lamps, the leaders of the West conversed for another half hour, then adjourned to dine (black tie) and talk again next day. So it went for three more full days, without ever achieving the drama which the occasion and cast seemed to suggest...
...Dine Together. When Congregationalist Blaisdell first arrived at Claremont in 1910, he moved into a world that was anything but prosperous. Pomona College, which he took over, was a dingy, debt-ridden place with an enrollment of 300 and only five buildings. Blaisdell immediately set to work writing alumni for funds. He made speeches, broadcast the name of Pomona across the state. By the end of World War I. Pomona had 750 students and more applicants than it could handle. It was then that Blaisdell made his decision : instead of allowing Pomona to grow into one big campus...
...when they ask you out to dine...
...tragic farce that the most conscientious profession should get on its knees and swear to the least conscientious (outside of downright racketeers of course) that its members will be good boys and girls and will not loaf on the job? At least teachers do not dine on $11.25 meals, charging them to the tax payer and do not vote themselves tax free raises and expense funds. Is a law constitutional which forces upon teachers a humiliation--that is, the admission that without the pledge to teach to the best of their ability, they will shirk their duty? Suppose these legislators...
Then usually a walk around the snowy town, with Wilder ducking into a baroque church, or discoursing on the quality of local theater or on what happened at this corner during the resistance uprising. Each evening we would dine together, then retire before...