Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of forcing their way through the blockade at the black-tie 350th dinner this September, police simply made sure the protesters and alumni kept their distance. They knew that any use of force would have created a media spectacle for the hordes of newsmen in town for the 350th hoopla...
...whorehouse on the construction site. When she began dragging men in off the street, the new city's normally tolerant commissioners had her removed. When that British rascal Rear Admiral George Cockburn broke into the White House with 150 of his sailors on Aug. 24, 1814, they ate the dinner prepared for James and Dolley Madison, who had fled. Then, before firing the place, Cockburn claimed a chair cushion, declaring that it would help him remember Mrs. Madison's seat. The remark was considered so risque it was not printed for years...
Heiskell, who attended the Business School, was referring to an incident in September during the 350th anniversary celebration when 68 students, alumni and union members blockaded Memorial Hall and prevented about 600 guests from attending a black tie dinner. In the face of this blockade, Bok decided to cancel the dinner...
...make a pathetic story short, as a friend and I wandered into Pizzeria Uno's for dinner, it seems that a manager mistook us for a pair of youths who had just rudely stormed out of his restaurant after hearing that the wait for a table was 15 minutes. To say the least, he displayed his displeasure at our nerve to return to his establishment after our alleged misbehavior. In fact, he put his face right up to mine and yelled at us, as if we were his kids who had just told their father to drop dead...
...make a call to arms, but I know that students are more interested in the party that night than in letting a local merchant know that he's acting like a jerk. I should know. When I was booted from Uno's, I was more concerned about my lost dinner than being mistreated...