Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What they do not explain is that in modern Britain, Beefeaters have kept their uniforms and little else. They eat as little beef as everyone else in the meatless isles (not more than 23? worth weekly on the ration), and largely confine themselves to guarding the Tower by day, checking files and posing for tourists' photographs. They might be called bureaucrats...
...eupeptic medical doctor, Bombard began developing his theory in 1951, when he and a friend were caught in a storm while venturing across the English Channel in a small rubber boat. The craft tossed about for five days, and in that time Bombard and his companion had nothing to eat except half a kilo of butter they had brought along as a gift for a friend in England. This experience would have soured most men on seafaring for life, but in Bombard it kindled a consuming interest in the techniques of survival. Bombard persuaded a Dutch manufacturer of lifeboat...
Bombard felt that he had proved his point. "It was wonderful, terrible and interesting," he said, "but I never want to eat fish again...
...math teacher, went one evening into a downtown cafe and sat down at the counter. The counterman told Joe he would have to eat in the kitchen. "I was awfully hungry," Joe said later, "so I went back there to the kitchen. They put me at a little table near the sink. The dishwasher splashed soapy water on my food, and someone started to sweep the floor and made a dust cloud." Joe was terrified. He plunked down the price of his meal, dashed out through the front door, and ran without stopping all the mile and a half back...
...boys were still going 35 miles away to Hutchinson to get their hair cut.) The high school is planning to send its social science students out into the community to check up on race relations. And Joe Obi, who once fled from the hostile restaurant kitchen, finds he can eat in any restaurant, and says he isn't afraid any more...