Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomats are hard to come by is the problem of electronic surveillance. At the Majestic, quipped one U.S. diplomat, "there must be so many bugs they ride side-saddle." The Crillon is considered no more secure. "The only thing we talk about in the Crillon is what to eat for dinner," said one official, and at Crillon prices ($1.40 for a glass of orange juice), those conversations tend to be curt...
...restricted the bombing, and was nettled by the fact that she was hustled off to air-raid shelters up to six times a day because of the approach of U.S. warplanes. Still, some good resulted from the raids of the "air pirates." In one provincial town, for example, "you eat a fresh-caught carp under a red and white nylon canopy" that had been fashioned from a parachute from a shot-down U.S. warplane...
...looking at him you could hear Portland and Nogales, Mexico." Occasionally, Barthelme gives in to his talent for slickness, as in Report, a tale of technology as mindless process. Among the accomplishments of his scientific elite: an artificial stomach that would enable the people of underdeveloped lands to eat grass, and a hut-shrinking chemical "which penetrates the fibres of the bamboo, causing it, the hut, to strangle its occupants...
...Peter, Paul, and Mary is another song Dylan wrote. The Nothing is the same nothing Dylan saw in Frankie Lee and Judas Priest. "Too much of Nothing," Dylan writes, "can turn a man into a liar. It can cause some men to sleep on nails, the other men to eat fire. Everybody's doing something, I heard it in a dream." Sleeping on nails and eating fire are obvious acts of faith, and are at least some kind of answer to a life where a man who "don't know a thing" can be made a king. Again-the idea...
...Tuesday no one got lunch, and the volunteers and some of the poor people wandered off to look for something to eat. Work just abut stopped completely in the afternoon. John Miller, a Harvard junior who came down because "all of a sudden I realized I didn't have any exams," was working on an A-frame shelter with a carpenterish-looking white man from Miami, Florida. At 3 p.m. Tuesday they were the only ones hammering. The man from Florida said he came because the 12 tribes of Israel are supposed to show up sometime before June 6 "right...