Word: fruited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exhibits-section employees painted the house annually. They also built a front portico, dug a fish pond and equipped it with a pump and lights, and made shelves, telephone stands and an Oriental fruit bowl for Hoover. They repaired his air conditioners, stereo equipment, tape recorders, television sets, electric wiring, lawn mowers and a snow blower. They sodded portions of his yard, installed artificial turf, planted shrubbery, built a deck in the rear of the house, a redwood fence, a flagstone court and sidewalks. They designed and constructed a power-operated window, reset clocks, polished metal, retouched wallpaper, provided firewood...
...boycott continued until last year, when the Class of 1980 voted to send representatives to the body who promised to work for internal reform. The current reform proposals, now under discussion in the Faculty Council, are the fruit of their boycott-breaking. These proposals include increasing the proportion of student members of the CRR and establishing a small appeals board (both with a Faculty majority); the banning of hearsay evidence; a prohibition on participation by lawyers at CRR hearings (the famed constitutional lawyer Archibald Cox represented the University at the original proceedings); and a policy that would make minutes...
...that time he ate nothing but one or two large cans of V-8 juice. As if starving himself wasn't enough, he also ran several miles a day. "I needed the exercise. I had to lose those calories, man." The thought of varying his diet of water and fruit juice did occur to him, but calories scared him off. "Maybe I could have eaten soybeans, they're practically all protein. But even protein has calories." While other dieters counted 2000 calories a day, he counted...
...quick, disciplined mind, sharp tongue and a will of tempered steel. He is so savage in the give-and-take of political debate, for instance, that his Knesset speeches became famous as bloodlettings. These dramatic personality contrasts have earned Begin the description "inverted sabra"-after the Israeli desert fruit that is prickly outside but soft and sugary within. The Premier's sweetness is on the surface; the toughness is inside...
...strode along the Nile for one hour, a valuable time when he likes to think. Then he took his regular rubdown from a masseur who is also one of his bodyguards. Lunch was, as always, a bowl of soup. For nourishment during the day Sadat drinks liquids constantly: fruit juice, minted tea and a lightly carbonated European cola. A devout Muslim, he never touches liquor or wine...