Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Le Druillenec, British: "When the British tanks came, I was having my first meal in five days. I was eating grass. . . . I think I can fairly describe Belsen as the foulest and vilest spot that ever soiled the surface of the earth...
...Another big problem is food. We are fed in the mess hall, not well but adequately. We cannot take food out of the mess, nor at present can we get K-rations if we miss a meal. So if I go to the theater or a concert, I have to miss dinner. This is probably good for me, but eventually some arrangement will have to be made to stock food here in the office. Please could Jack Manthorp or some other enterprising individual in the New York office examine the possibilities of sending in a major shipment of food...
...have met a dozen or so German artists, writers, engineers-people well worth knowing. They occasionally invite me to dinner, sometimes fairly good meals, which they manage through relatives in the country or God knows how. The only way I can reciprocate is by giving them cigarets when I have any or by taking them out to dinner in one of the local night clubs, which are crowded, dysentery-ridden institutions at best and where $100 is not at all expensive for a meal for two or three people...
There were other, less dramatic joys-a visit to a county fair, a meal in a roadside restaurant, an idle ride aboard a yawl or cabin cruiser or outboard-powered rowboat...
Home Cooking. In Niles. Ohio, a caterer named Pio Palermo ate a meal at home, died of food poisoning...