Word: dinner
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...community has talking days every Sunday and major saints' feast days. On those days, the monks talk at one meal and have a reader at the other, while on Sundays, they converse during both lunch and dinner. In another blow to the monastic stereotype, readings aren't quite what you'd expect. "We read the autobiography of Anna Russell the other week. Very racy," says Father Dalby, who at age 86 is one of the senior members of the community. "Sometimes we have a more spiritual book, like some of the writings of Thomas Merton," he adds...
BANGKOK, Thailand--Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 drew cheers on a border tour and protest in the capital yesterday, then had his dinner plans changed by a bomb explosion in a hotel parking...
...bomb, which wounded three people, went off about 15 feet from where Weinberger was to have passed 90 minutes later on his way to a state dinner at the government-owned Erawan Hotel given by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda...
Officials moved the reception and dinner to the Hilton Hotel, where the defense secretary was staying...
...Embassy said Weinberger's delegation had no comment on the explosion. Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila told reporters that the secretary shrugged it off with this comment at the private dinner: "Thailand is one of the safest places in the world. It's safer than New York...