Word: eatening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FOOD. The custom of three full meals a day has been established only since 1890. Anglo-Saxon tradition knew only two meals-breakfast and dinner-and in the 16th century, dinner was eaten at 11 a.m. While discussing diets, the rabbi rejects the notion that the Jewish and Moslem prohibition against pork started because of fear of food poisoning. The pig was taboo from earliest times because it was worshiped by primitive peoples who also sacrificed it to their idols and ate it in sacred meals. This made Jews, in their passion for monotheism, reject...
Mayer said that the HDC did not expect to receive this kind of support, but "we would like our people to eat." He claimed to have eaten but one meal in the past two days and that a single cheeseburger...
...puckish humor overcame Lautrec. His recipe for leg of lamb, for instance, required "a glacier like the Wildstrubel. Kill a young lamb from the high Alps at around 3,000 meters, during September. Cut out the leg and let it hang for three or four weeks. It should be eaten raw with horse-radish...
...upon its resin content; compared to hashish (the pure, dried resin) and ganja (flowering tops only of specially cultivated plants)--neither available in this part of the world--marihuana is a sort of cubscout variety of hemp. Yet even with its scant amount of resin, marihuana, when smoked or eaten, can provoke bizarre, highly variable symptoms of narcotic intoxication...
...when, wrote Moran, Churchill seemed to be "living in the past and impatient of change. I could see then that he was sliding, almost imperceptibly, into old age." He appeared hearty enough in the 1951 elections, which returned him to office, but, "behind his bluff, he is eaten up with misgivings. He said that he had a 'muzzy feeling' in his head." Three months later, returning on the Queen Elizabeth from a meeting with President Truman, Moran found Churchill asleep in his cabin. " 'I have been dreaming; it was extremely vivid,' he said. 'I could...