Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days keeping their vessel afloat after sea water accidentally flooded her hull and stopped her engines off the stormy Carolina capes. A tug finally towed the foundering vessel safely into Charleston, S.C., where the crew knelt thankfully on her deck-and shot craps until the cook got a hot meal together...
...price of 5,500,000 francs ($16,500) was brought by 17th Century Adriaen Brouwer's Peasants' Meal, a scene as vulgar and unbelted as an after-supper belch. Anthony Van Dyck's forceful portrait of Engraver Paul Pontius went for $11,700; Jacob Ruysdael's cold but kindly Winter Scene for $9,600; Jan Steen's low-comedy Effects of Intemperance...
Then Wu was jerked to his feet, stripped of his grey jacket. His arms were bound from behind with thin cord. He was led to a table for his last meal; his grim-jawed captors fed him a bowlful of noodles and poured a swig of hot rice wine through his lips. Shrilly Wu shouted: "Long live Sun Yat-sen!" He sang China's national anthem. Then police boosted Wu and his comrades into an open truck. On each man's back was a white placard noting his crime. Sirens wailing, the truck rumbled through Shanghai...
Spring Is Here. McNeil spoke up again. "When I am working hard ... I think it not unreasonable to ask my wife to provide me with a hot meal," said McNeil, "but I have been known to urge my wife to leave the making of the Sunday lunch to me ... I make a very excellent Sunday lunch." U.S. Delegate Eleanor Roosevelt threw a sharper spear: "Who does the housework in the Soviet Union? Is it always done by the men, or are all the services performed through some communal arrangement...
Whether they are right or wrong, the Union gals haven very definite ideas about the %2s who stream by the long counters meal after meal, day after...