Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a device to make possible educational work," one Master said, "and girls attending tutorial in the Houses will be allowed to eat there only if the tutorial group eats together...
...labor force. Because of army protests in 1959, Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai was replaced by more pliable Marshal Lin Piao, who instituted a new and supposedly chastening system of sending officers into the ranks for one month each year to wear "ordinary soldiers' uniforms and to eat, live, drill, labor and play together with fellow soldiers." Even generals undergo this treatment, which seems clearly designed to discourage the emergence of an officer caste...
...traditional red-cap, jacket, shirt, trousers, even suspenders. Pinned between their shoulders was a big red license plate. All were in moods ranging from festive to rambunctious. Said Rancher Bob Lahde, who "takes in" hunters: "You can tell how keyed up these hunters are by the way they eat. First day, they'll take maybe one of my bear-burgers. Then they get a buck, and my wife and I can't get enough food moving to them...
...sell." Well sir, no sooner were the growers of cotton mollified than the makers of cotton cloth and yarn and clothing began to moan. "All those foreigners," they wailed, "are buying our country's cheap cotton and making it into cheap goods and sending them back here to eat up our markets." (The clothmakers were careful not to remind the President that his country earned much more money selling cotton and cloth to the foreigners than it spent on the cloth it bought from them...
Bullitt said the move gave students who wanted to eat early and rapidly the opportunity to do so, while still allowing Quincy residents to bring guests from other Houses after 6:15 p.m. He said he hoped to "spread dining out" over the entire 5:30-7 p.m. period...