Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three long hours while the pink and white blossoms unfold, waiting tensely for the moment when the bud burst open to the morning light. It took a discerning ear to separate the sound of an opening lotus from the purl of a fish lazily waking to his morning meal or the plip of a dewdrop on a mossy stone...
...France, the delegates could lunch on the train and pay in French francs. In Belgium a little later they could eat the same lunch, but the Belgian rate of exchange made the meal cost three times as much. If a delegate had a cup of coffee while the train was in France, he got one lump of sugar. In Belgium, he could have two lumps. In The Netherlands, he got as much sugar as he liked-not because the Dutch have more sugar, but because they have a different tourist policy...
...tell you my heart sank . . . Dark-looking cupboards . . . sinks with time-worn wooden drains, one rusty wooden dumbwaiter." Rats, cockroaches, ants, moths shared living space with 32 servants: there wasn't a cookbook in the whole place, or "enough utensils to cook a fair-sized family meal." "You're not to worry . . . You're going to be all right," said...
Then at last the duke gets up, after eating three eggs with his steak. "Cheerio," he says. "We had a nice meal," he says. And what do the Irish do? As the Archangel Michael's a witness, they cheer. Cheer themselves hoarse, they do, which produces such a parching and a dryness of the entire population that, faith, by the time the young duke and his friends get back to their naval duty at Londonderry, you'd scarce find a sober breath in all Buncrana, and that's in County Donegal on the shores of Lough Swilly...
Cardinal Mindszenty was 56, precise, ascetic. Guests at his dinners got such meager fare that they counted on picking up another meal afterward. His town house on Budapest's Var Hill still showed bomb scars, and he lived in only two rooms of it. But Hungarian peasants understood his blunt speech. He told them to stop reading government newspapers and stop listening to the radio. In a pastoral letter he proclaimed: "To the bitter disgrace of this country, falsehood, deceit and terror were never greater...