Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five weeks the city had been the scene of peaceful sit-ins, marches and picketing by N.A.A.C.P.-led Negroes. Targets of the demonstrators were Jacksonville's segregated hotels, restaurants and movie houses. Negro youngsters began hit-and-run sit-ins, swarming into whites-only lunch counters, demanding service, and fleeing before the cops could get there...
...woodland, wearing out five axes in the process, and built much of the house himself. Woodsmanship is a skill that Cheever and Lee share, and it reached a danger point on one neighborly occasion at the Lee place, when the two held a woodcutting contest after a fine lunch, Lee with an ax and Cheever with a chain saw. In the heat of the competition, the axman came perilously close to clipping the sawman...
...giment) organized themselves into platoons and companies as more and more troop-laden planes dropped out of the Mediterranean sky. Mess Sergeant Roméo Saulnier, bent over the first three stoves set up, said, "I've got orders to cook supper for 400 men tonight, lunch for 600 tomorrow, and for 800 next...
...dappled woods, up a winding creek bed. Many had walked no farther than the distance from living-room sofa to TV tuning dial in years. For these, the brisk uphill pace, over boulders, across the brooks and fallen trees, was arduous going. By the time they sprawled out for lunch, on ledge rocks by a waterfall, blisters were rising on tender feet...
...made his first appearance in the Dining Hall for lunch. Conversation teetered on neutral subjects--mathematical tricks and why the Leverett elevators only stop every second floor. At the end of the first meal, Sorensen was reminded that at Harvard one returns one's tray to the kitchen...