Word: feasting
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...College Administration will still hold its annual spring party in Memorial Hall on Wednesday. Students whose last names begin with the letter A to M are cordially invited between 1 and 3 p.m. N to Z people will be welcome between 3 and 4; and various assorted delinquents may feast on what's left of the hors d'oeuvres between 4 and 5. Anyone not deigning to accept the invitation may pay a cheery little fine...
...Budget Director. Dodge looked over the shoulders of the Truman team as they polished up the $78.5 billion budget that Eisenhower would have to live with in fiscal 1954 (July i, 1953 to June 30, 1954). Before the year was over, Ike abandoned what he called "feast or famine" military policy in favor of the "long haul," with its accent on nuclear air power. Dodge, for his part, pruned $10.8 billion from the Truman budget, worked out a $65.5 billion budget for fiscal 1955, then went home to Detroit,* turning the job over to the man who had been...
...week, date, month and year on the Gregorian calendar, the Julian day and year, the movements of the planets, sunrise and sunset by mean solar time and true solar time, central European time, and sidereal time. Inventor Olsen's own favorite chronologic refinement: a calendar of church feasts, which at the beginning of each year records the coming year's feast days after the calendar mechanism has gone through 570,000 different functions in six minutes...
...last week the issue crowded in anyway, when ardent Catholics planned to turn the Feast of the Immaculate Conception into a political demonstration for the immediate return of all church privileges...
...religious message is swaddled in what Hollywood calls "production values," e.g., a 3-D tour of Nebuchadnezzar's Palace of the Hanging Gardens in Babylon, the orgiastic rites of a harlot votary of the goddess Ishtar ("Her breasts were encased in golden bowls"), Belshazzar's feast at which a disembodied hand dooms King and country with the famed handwriting on the wall...