Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another girl, who dotes on yoghurt, decided "you eat in little bits so no one will notice any food gone--not even...
Still another girl said she would eat anything once she started on a compulsive binge, with dry bread, lumps of sugar, and whole cinnamon sticks doing very nicely if nothing else was around...
...this privacy was taken very seriously by others. "I definitely think that it's wrong to take something like this and make us feel self-conscious about it," said one girl. "If you feel like eating compulsively you should just go ahead and eat compulsively." Later she called such discussion "rather cruel...
Girls are not sure exactly when they eat compulsively. But some favorite times are on long car rides, just before starting to write a paper, before a large amount of studying, after coming home from a mediocre date, before going to bed, or during a long afternoon in the dormitory. A junior said she found herself eating a great deal during the week she was terribly uncertain about her academic future...
Only girls in off-campus houses can keep large stores of food in their own refrigerators. Girls in the brick dormitories, however, show great resourcefulness in getting things to eat. Some keep fruit and cheese in shared refrigerators, cookies, crackers, and jelly in their rooms; some buy sandwiches, ice cream, and pizza from the vendors that come every evening; some gorge themselves at the regular meals; and some even break into the dormitory kitchens at night and walk off with great loads of snacks. Of course, there are always restaurants and Brighams...