Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lunch I was allowed to go with the other patients to the cafeteria. Like a child who has been cooped up in school all day I charged outside--much to the amusement of the hospital staff. Phoebe, who had been asleep only a moment before, ran to catch up, and both of us, celebrating sunshine and fresh air, jumped over a hedge...
...After lunch patients returned to their corners to resume sleep. A few scavenged in the ashtrays and wastebaskets for a last drag on a crushed cigarette butt. Cigarettes were an opiate--sleep, an escape. On my right a woman sat lethargically in her chair--her eyes heavy and dull. I tried to start a conversation but she turned to the wall, flashing a look tat could only mean "Leave me alone...
...often that all-women cocktail parties have become an institution. Many of their husbands also drink more than their share. In Manhattan, restaurants advertise Businessmen's Breakfasts, featuring a Bloody Mary. An Akron psychiatrist says: "Stress and executive anxiety are endemic. Desks are full of pills. Liquor for lunch is a necessity." As a result, many companies employ a psychiatrist...
...Juliet, Twelfth Night and King John are the varied fare of the Elizabethan theater's 29th season. Virtue in Danger, an updated romantic musical escapade revived from the 17th century by Screenwriter-Lyricist Paul Dehn and Composer James Bernard, will serve as the matinee, a light after-lunch petite farce...
...Lunch Search. Even so, the occasion was not entirely without the violence that Welsh nationalists had promised. Two young extremists were killed the night before the ceremony when explosives that they were carrying went off near train tracks in Abergele, where the royal family passed on its way to Caernarvon. Later, the train carrying the royal entourage was halted while police checked out one of dozens of bomb threats, and hours after Charles had left the castle, a British soldier burned to death inside an army minibus that had caught fire, possibly from a bomb...