Word: eating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rugged tongue of someone who takes refuge in being thought a "kook." She loves to demonstrate eccentricity. One night she was sitting with a group of friends who were kidding her about her carelessness with money. Promptly Annie pulled a $20 bill from her purse and started eating it, nibbling the edges like a rabbit tackling lettuce. "I just love to eat money," said she, savoring the effect. "I must take it up with my analyst some time...
...boarding undergraduates were supposed to eat in Memorial Hall, but the consistent overcrowding there led to a series of food riots...
...Administration closed Memorial Hall as a dining room, and for the next six years everyone in the University had to "eat out" in the Square, if he were to eat...
...would sooner eat a bushel of cranberry products that might be contaminated than smoke a cigarette...
...seats, in the bowl end, are inhabited by a motley crew of young (i.e., poor) alumni, our wives and assorted children. The wives have doffed their party garb of Wellesley days and come prepared for the elements. The kids hoot at the referees, opposing players, and other urchins. They eat semi-raw hot dogs and are watered by harried fathers with distressing frequency--usually on a TD play...