Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered his meal under his breath and picked up the evening paper. "Nazis Driving Toward Caucasus Oil," and then a feature story--eyewitness account of the famine in Greece. Why did they always print stuff like that? He knew war was tough--he was willing to take it when the time came. Why couldn't they let him alone for a little while...
...gripe: "Our battery has the worst food in the Army. We've got the worst sergeant in the battery. No kidding, though, our platoon makes all the others look crummy." Private Bushemi, photographer, hazes a mess sergeant: "You know the one thing that's missing from this meal-the one thing that would make it perfect?" "Ice cream?" asks the sergeant. "Chloroform," says Bushemi...
West Coast fishermen have troubles too. The sardine haul normally runs over a billion pounds a year (onefourth of the entire U.S. catch), goes into food, fish oil, fish meal and fertilizer. But this year bad weather, the loss of Jap and Italian crewmen, and Navy restrictions on when & where fishermen can fish have slashed output as much as 50%. The valuable tuna catch has also slumped, for the big fish are caught only in deep water far offshore. Fish prices have not risen as in New England. Reason: the Government is buying the entire 1942 sardine and tuna catch...
...dining room is valuable to its members not only as an eating place, but it is also their only counterpart of the undergraduate House system. Many friendships made at meal time, their only opportunity to meet socially, continue for years...
...When a meal is in full swing, the cafeteria style dining room contains a very diversified group. A graduate musician peels potatoes, a chemistry fellow deals out vegetables, and a biology section man scoops out the ice cream...