Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish Memorial confidence was quite effectively generated with a lunchroom boycott. Most workers who favor the union -- no matter how slightly -- will participate in a tactic of such low-level provocation. "You can't get fired for not eating lunch," Raudenbush remarked. He estimated that even if only one-fourth of the workers are actually signed up on union cards, this tactic would get support from a majority. The boycott showed the administration at Jewish Memorial the solidarity of the workers. More important it showed the workers their own strength...
...German shakes hello and he shakes goodbye, even if he has seen you only ten minutes earlier. He shakes the hands of his fellow workers when he arrives at work in the morning, and again before he goes home. He shakes before lunch and he shakes after dinner...
...struck out up a narrow, wooded trail for three miles, then broke out on top at 10,000 ft. onto untouched snow fields. Under blue skies and a dazzling sun, sportsmen zigged and zagged lazily back down the mountain, through pine trees and leafless aspen, pausing only for a lunch of coffeecake and hot chocolate in an alpine meadow. Meanwhile, at Lancaster, N.H., the emphasis was on all-out action: 121 competitors, vying for 56 trophies and cash prizes, slammed through bone-jarring, cross-country or downhill obstacle races...
...same as two other psychoactive drugs, yagé and caapi. While something has been learned of its effects and composition from on-the-spot studies, more may soon be learned on the University of California's Berkeley campus. For there, following its mention in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch, yagé is now being peddled surreptitiously as "the jungle drug" or "the tiger drug." So far, those who have taken the substance have not told scientific investigators of its effects...
...been found in the morning shaving with one hand while reading a book in the other, or at graduate semniars, clipping his nails while reports are read. He religiously dictates everything he writes. Edwin Reischauer, University Professor and a time conservationist of lesser repute, recently suggested they skip lunch to meet and plan a course. "But you have to eat," replied Fairbank. Reischauer looked skeptical. Fairbank continued, "If we don't eat then, we'll have to use up some time before or after our meeting...