Word: diner
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...little bite-sine slices which hide among the rice and vegetables and furnish the tang without which no chop suey can be enjode. Where there is no meat, there is no meal, for just as the door plucks the mushroom from the field of toadstools, so does the discriminating diner prove his chop suey with his fork and extracts the tender pieces of flesh...
...tried a variant of this in a roadside diner. Approaching a counterman, he said: "My name is Estes Kefauver, and I'm running for President...
Liquor is rationed to three bottles a month, two of wine, one of spirits. In restaurants you are allowed only 10 centiliters (about two 1½-oz. shots) with a meal. Some restaurants put an artificial chicken before a "diner...
...when Davie starts raving about the roadside diner he can buy for $300, and spouting the combination and cash contents of the rickety old safe, Pa Eder-ly's eyes blink without tears. Pretending a fear of robbers, Pa and the family stoke the safe with $300. "Given money, wheedled money, is always back to wheedle again," Pa muses. "With taken money it's a different story; it goes and stays." That night, as the rest huddle sadly near an upstairs window, Davie skedaddles with the loot, goes "to make his million, down the black road...
...short," concluded a diner, "the University seems to be trying to satisfy all of the poet Schiller's requirements for life...