Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assume there is some higher reason. But whatever this reason, living off campus offers many advantages over House life for some. In the first place, University room and board charges are high: one can easily save $100 a year living out. Concentration is easier off-campus. I eat better than I did in Quincy House. In social life, I can avoid the mediocre and dull and offer a meal to the outstanding...
...guest house, where machine-gun-carrying Egyptian commandos were posted with orders to let no one in or out. "This is the dirtiest trick in history," howled Tshombe. "It's unprecedented to imprison a visiting head of government." Forced to watch the conference on television, he refused to eat for fear of being poisoned, drank Katanga beer he had brought with him, and kept his four secretaries up all night typing protests to all 46 nations at the meeting...
...hottest hours of the day there is no water for a shower and the electricity comes and goes as if monkeys were playing with the switches." Wrote another: "I am haunted by ghosts of corruption, high prices, high rents, adulteration in everything. There's no fresh bread to eat, no safe water to drink, no sugar to remove the unsavory taste from my mouth. The whole city is floating in a sea of sewage...
...forbidden to drink beer, wine or liquor. But the Commission says: "After the President had retired to his hotel, nine agents who were off duty went to the nearby Fort Worth Press Club at midnight or slightly thereafter, expecting to obtain food; they had had little opportunity to eat during the day. No food was available at the Press Club. All of the agents stayed for a drink of beer, or in several cases, a mixed drink. According to their affidavits, the drinking in no case amounted to more than three glasses of beer or 1½ mixed drinks, and others...
...drink, I don't smoke, I don't eat, I compute. At night I rest my transistors and"-looking down into her cleavage-"my solar batteries...