Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even in their most idealistic moments the best men and women could be self-seeking - not merely be cause they were naturally ambitious, but because ambition was demanded by the conventions. Perhaps this is what he meant to convey to the lady who, on seeing him devour a huge meal, remarked : "You seem to have a very good appetite, Mr. Trol lope!" "None at all, madam," he replied, "but, thank God, I am very greedy...
...tore off chunks of bread and gnawed at them without waiting to get home. All shops were closed except food markets, and their stocks were pitifully limited. Partial electric service has been restored, but there is no gas yet, and some Viennese families have gone months without one hot meal. From the Vienna woods plod long lines of poor women, many of them barefoot, sweating and staggering under heavy loads of faggots for the city's stoves...
...head-for food, drink and a $3,200 silver service-they came to honor the boss, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Two days later at the Palmer House, some 1,500 carefully selected citizens (including ten Negroes) gathered for speeches praising McCormick, a speech by McCormick and a free meal...
Constantly hungry on a daily ration (for the whole group) of one peck of meal from the ship's stores, always cold from exposure, many of them developed scurvy and pneumonia. The Pilgrims, claims Author Willison, blandly ignored the ship's doctor, Giles Heale. For medical advice they depended solely on one of their own members, Deacon Samuel Fuller. Result: almost every day somebody died. When at last the Mayflower sailed back to England, the harvest came in, and a gift of corn from Squanto increased the group ration by another peck of fresh meal. But the seven...
...Pink Water. The Berliner eats about as well as the average Parisian ate last November: enough to keep from starving, not enough to satisfy his hunger. The great difference is that the Berliner with plenty of money-and there are many of them-cannot buy the lavish black-market meals the Parisian could. A typical black meal comprises two square inches of horsemeat sausage, some potatoes and beets, two glasses of pink flavored water. Cost: five dollars...