Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeping with his character -and some would say his politics-he is somewhat ambidextrous, using his right hand to write, playing tennis with his left. He was lefthanded as a boy, but his father tied a string to his left wrist at the dinner table. When Nelson tried to eat southpaw, his father gave a yank. Rockefeller does not smoke and only occasionally has a Dubonnet on the rocks or some wine. There is no way of telling that he is a Rockefeller from his dress. His nondescript suits are invariably rumpled, his ties unmemorable...
...tolerates no dissent, but he has started to curb the whimsical use of power by institutionalizing government processes. The bureaucracy has greater authority, and instead of ad hoc economic decisions there is now a Five-Year Plan. These changes aim, in part, at improving living standards. Although Cubans now eat better, are healthier and claim the highest literacy rate in Latin America, there are still enormous shortages of all kinds of goods. Only through normalized relations with other nations of the hemisphere can Cuba obtain the products and technological and managerial expertise its economy needs...
...losses, small wonder that the consummate writer of romances should have earned a reputation for the consumption of spirits. "I drink sometimes, but a lot less than I used to," she told the Italian magazine Gente this month. "When you drink, the time arrives when you don't eat any more; if you don't eat, then you get tired; if you get exhausted too much, then you don't sleep well; and if you don't sleep well, then you burst." After describing herself as basically happy, tolerant and honest, Sagan added...
Upstairs at the Union (sounds like name for a preppie bar) there's a room full of ping-pong tables, ppool tables and pinball machines ready to eat up quarters and time. Many otherwise rational and intelligent men and women of Harvard have succumbed to the addiction of the shiny steel balls--a manifestation of some repressed sexual desires...
...address printed under your picture in the Freshman Register, while your Harvard classmates smile out from the pages with their intended concentration listed below. You will not be treated to catcalls and whistles every time you set foot in the Freshman Union. And should you ever have cause to eat at the Faculty Club, you will not have to go in via the back entrance...