Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city against country and country against city." Actually, contended Adlai, in an astonishing defense of a support program leading to continuing surpluses: "Abundance is not a blight but a blessing." Farm production can remain high without harm; surpluses can be distributed where they are needed through a bigger school-lunch program, a food stamp plan for the needy, a world food bank...
Though retired now, and careful not to overdo, J.D.R. Jr. is still the head of the clan. Each day in The Eyrie he rises at 7, breakfasts at 8 (he takes no coffee, no tea), starts work on his projects at 9. Lunch is served at noon, and afterward he takes a ritualistic one-hour nap, getting into pajamas, sleeping soundly. Sometimes he works through the afternoon; sometimes he relaxes among his Oriental wood carvings and Chinese Buddhas; sometimes he takes the second Mrs. Rockefeller (his beloved Abby died in 1948; in 1951 he married Martha Baird Allen, widow...
...senior year he was elected to manage the college football team, and a classmate wrote what happened in an essay called "The College Career of Johnny Rock": "When the team journeyed to Boston to play Harvard, John seated his men on stools at the Thorndike Hotel lunch counter. Here the prices were lower than in the dining room with its linen-draped tables and tip-conscious waiters. Another time, when one of the players asked John for a pair of new shoelaces, he had to answer this one: 'What did you do with the pair I gave you last...
...Young Vittorio begged clothes to distribute among the village poor; he even persuaded the five beggars who had enjoyed Boscotrecase's old-clothes monopoly to give up part of their haul. Rumors spread about the goodness of young Vittorio-that at school he gave away his lunch to poorer boys, that he supported 13 families with his charity. He denied the rumors, but people began to call him santariello (little saint...
...companion across the lunch table was Giuseppe Saragat, 57. Once Nenni's top lieutenant, Saragat had shared exile with Nenni from Mussolini's Fascism...