Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that one weakness of his administration has been that he did not emphasize it more. "I would have more religion in our school if I could get away with it. It is hard to make the boys understand: You've got to have something better than a good meal in you to face tomorrow's troubles. You can't become religious overnight if you need God tomorrow...
...solution to the problem might be an orderly establishment of an activities table in the vestibule or entrance to the dining halls, at which, by prior permission from the House Secretaries, one organization at a time, and only one at any given meal, would have the use of the table. Such a table, placed on a permanent basis, should eliminate much of the confusion that now results from hasty, ill-prepared arrangements for solicitation and ease frayed nerves on the part of both the solicitors and the solicited. Activities promoters would be assured of facilities, and students would know just...
...crossed into Indo-China and found a blonde French woman leading a band of Vietnamese guerrillas. A C-47 crew, which crashed in the Himalayan hills, walked back 350 miles through bandit country. For fear of dysentery they lived entirely on boiled eggs until natives talked them into a meal of fried bees (which tasted like a cross between meat and nuts...
...were not yet in bloom, but every day the hotel management sent up baskets of spring flowers, mainly King Alfred jonquils. The P.M. ate in the hotel dining room, and Chef Gene Gualko successfully stimulated his appetite with all sorts of southern dishes and sea food. At almost every meal, Mackenzie King ordered Virginia bacon. Once he got away with two whole broiled lobsters and was "crazy about them...
...Moskva there was a dial telephone and hot water in every room (the hot water began on the same day as the conference), English-speaking employees on every floor. A special book of meal tickets entitled each visitor to excellent, inexpensive food (waiters in the Moskva's dining room were surprised to see how British newsmen, rationed at home, stuffed themselves). Everything was so good for the visiting newsmen that Moscow's seven U.S. regulars put in a bid for special restaurant privileges too-and got them in six hours, a bureaucratic record...