Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cities one night last week, 25,000 rank-and-file Republicans paid $100 each to eat mediocre meals in various halls and hotels while G.O.P. officials, candidates and would-be candidates orated to them over closed-circuit television. Billed as "Go-Day Rallies," the round-robin affairs rallied more than enough money to wipe out the Republican National Committee's $225,000 deficit left over from past campaigns, and gave party workers a chance to watch their standard-bearers at work...
...these spirited short stories, Sillitoe's characters command a rich dialect in which the underdog facetiousness blurs but does not hide wary resentment or cynical despair. In their softer moments, they would like to live like their betters-ride bikes, wear cloth caps, eat fish and chips, play the football pools, and watch the telly on a paid-up set. For those simple pleasures of the poor, sex and the bottle, they have the same words: they "have a bash...
...social diseases" a few years ago. So long as people were "too nice" to mention gonorrhea and syphilis, these diseases went 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. The less defensible the practices of a sect, the more it stands to gain by the "conspiracy of silence." While critics of sectarianism generally remain silent, zealous sectarians urge their points of view with emotional fervor. Free and frank evaluation would reduce many evils...
...town hall, manages to show up for, and partake in, nearly every banquet in town. He freely attributes his vitality to Burgundy's caloric cuisine. "I don't follow any diet, have no liver trouble, and don't touch mineral water," he says. "I just eat a little of everything, and wash it down with red and white Burgundies...
...that of Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 63, the chairman of first-ranking Aluminum Co. of America. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Harvard ('23), he tramped the jungles of Latin America and Africa as a geologist in search of bauxite, learned to speak five languages and eat such delicacies as parrot soup, struck oil for Alcoa in Texas and along the way found time to be an athlete (rowing), amateur artist, rider and hunter. Since he moved up from president last April, he has spent most of his time "thinking, talking and listening about marketing and sales." Last...