Word: eating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dining halls will close after dinner next Tuesday, Dean Watson has announced. Board charges will cease at that time, but students remaining in Cambridge for Commencement may take their meals at Kirkland House. Students who eat in Kirkland must pay for meals by coupons or cash...
...begs in the Dominican Republic. First offense draws six months on the work farm, the second offense a couple of years, the third, life imprisonment. "Either they work," said my guide, "or they don't eat." Nor is there much unofficial crime, petty thievery and such. What's the penalty? "The penalty, sir, is that you don't do it again...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s unemployment rally in Washington last month. Labor Secretary James Mitchell promised to publicly eat his hat if October figures did not drop unemployment to 3,000,000 and raise employment to 67 million. Still to go: six months, a rise of 2,000,000 employed and a cut of 625,000 unemployed. It began to look as though Jim Mitchell's hat was safe...
...first the laborer-teachers do little except work, sleep and eat, while suety muscles harden. Management does them no favors; they do the same work as ordinary laborers and get the same wages. When classes begin, the props are Spartan: a few books, a folding blackboard. Recalls Welfare Worker Dean Bowman, who arrived at the Geco uranium mines in northwestern Ontario four years ago fresh from Ohio's Antioch College: "I was a complete stranger, carrying expensive luggage, who bore all too much resemblance to a run-of-the-mill college boy." Bowman soon developed "calluses over blisters," managed...
...went against the visitors. This provoked a heated protest from the always-colorful B.U. coach, Harry Cleverly. After asking the umpire repeatedly "why are you choking up?" Cleverly strode to the press row and promised the reporters "If the runner wasn't out by a country mile, I'll eat the damn ball." Fortunately, however, Harry managed to keep his appetite under control...