Word: eats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before any of these things begin to happen Van Cliburn is bracing himself to clear one high hurdle. Late Monday afternoon, May 19, if he conforms to his usual ritual as a somewhat ailing health enthusiast, he will eat three raw eggs cracked into a glass with the yolks intact and swallowed in one agonized gulp. In the evening in his dressing room, he will dose himself from a staggering array of pills and nose drops. As a tension reliever, and because he thinks it helps clear his mind, he will sit down for several minutes bolt upright...
...sunk to a respectable job as a second lead in the Opera-Comique-and Gigi's guardians (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) are taking no chances with such bad heredity. They drill the little girl in the fundamentals of her profession: 1) the proper way to eat an ortolan ("Bad table manners have broken up more homes than infidelity"); 2) the proper method of assaying a jewel ("Wait for the first-class jewels, Gigi. Hold on to your ideals!"); 3) the proper attitude toward marriage (''Instead of getting married at once, it sometimes happens we get married...
...polls were prepared with the aid of the Social Relations Department, which "helped us word the questions," Dogherty said. The poll deals with all aspects of Dining Hall service and asks for specific food likes and dislikes as well as opinions on the general philosophy of "you can eat all you want if you can stomach it." The questionnaire also asks for comments on a proposed 14 or 15 meal weeks with reduced board rates and asks students to rate the "attractiveness and quality of the food...
...nylons to the peddling of statues of the Virgin Mary. Fidelman desperately attempts to fend him off, first with handouts, then with insults, but Susskind clings like chewing gum to a shoe: he pops up in a trattoria to spoil Fidelman's appetite by hungrily watching him eat; he stands shivering at his side to shame Fidelman for having warm clothing. Given four dollars, Susskind contemptuously counts the money, demands: "If four, then why not five?" Giotto forgotten. Fidelman is systematically robbed and humiliated, but learns what wise men have known for centuries: that a man is responsible...
...social diseases" a few years ago. So long as people were "too nice" to mention the social diseases the diseases were largely untreated and ate away at countless victims. Because we are "too nice" to call attention to the errors and other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. While critics of sectarianism generally remain silent, zealous sectarians urge their points of view with emotional fervor. Free and frank evaluation would reduce many of the evils of sectarianism, but sectarian leadership does not willingly submit to such evaluation...