Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report to the Council, Dogherty said that it was possible that board charges for the College might rise next year. According to Lewis G. Wiggins, Comptroller of the University, employees' wages have risen, food costs have risen, and "chances are that board will go up again." The dining halls ran a $22,500 deficit last year, he noted...
...register: improbably distended bras (cheese and caviar), hollowed-out books (chops), a bagful of well-used baby diapers (canned goods), the false-bottom market bag, fake laundry packages (packaged meat), bulky, many-pocketed coats, stretch socks and slacks (candy and cigarettes). In a Chicago suburb, aware of a National Food Store security guard on her trail, one Spartan shopper waddled two blocks down the street before she let loose the frozen turkey under her skirt...
Impulse to Save. Supermarket defense devices are far less imaginative than the shoplifters' gimmicks. National Food trains clerks and checkers by film slides and lecture tapes ("An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of apprehension"), and most chains have beefed up their security forces. Checkers learn catcherlike signals (e.g., can tossed from hand to hand is S O S call). One-way mirrors, secret peepholes and closed-circuit TV help spot the heisters, but eat up the labor savings of self-service merchandising. Nor is a shoplifter spotted necessarily a shoplifter stopped. Grocers run the risk of being...
...true to "real spy-life." Too much sex? Replies Fleming: "Perhaps Bond's blatant heterosexuality is a subconscious protest against the current fashion for sexual confusion." Too much snobbery? "I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props ... I myself abhor Wine-and-Foodmanship. My own favorite food is scrambled eggs." Yet, though he has never been known to kick anyone in the groin, and fancies his own Ford Thunderbird over a Bentley, Author Fleming strikes his friends as "awfully like Bond really, appearance, clothes, Floris bath essence...
With the exception of Winthrop, most House officials feel that the steam tables should be moved back into the kitchens. Such an arrangement would facilitate transportation of food from the kitchens to the cafeteria line, and would serve to enlarge the area of the halls for meals and dramatic and social events...