Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...closing the Union dining hall on weekends, the Administration this year arranged for freshmen to eat their weekend meals at the Houses. Nicholson considers this exposure to the Houses inadequate, although he did say that it provides some contact with up perclassmen. He said he hopes that the booklet prepared by the Council will provide more concrete and complete House information than the weekend meal system...
There is one time when the plebes can talk. Occasionally, upperclassmen may ask plebes to memorize something or other (say the Communist Manifesto, or Bill Buckley's latest column). At a later meal, they are called upon to recite their lines...
...Some freshmen used to lose as much as 60 pounds over the course of a year," said one West Point official. In order to prevent outright starvation, a new rule was instituted which required that plebes must be permitted to eat one meal...
Breweries are also adding wine lines: Schlitz and Seattle's Rainier companies have moved into the wine business during the past few years. Food-processing companies are heeding the ancient Roman proverb, "A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine": Pillsbury Co., Nestlé and the R.T. French & Co. of mustard fame have recently become vineyard owners. So have Lazard Frères, the Wall Street investment-banking firm; John Hancock, the insurer; and Southdown Inc., the Houston-based conglomerate. Takeover-ripe wineries have become rare, and the bids for them are enormous. The Gallo brothers have...
...office and frequent trips abroad to see what the foreign competition is doing. August Sebastiani's life-style is typical. He has a collection of rare birds, and his house is packed with many fine wines. In the evenings he and his frequent guests dine royally; one recent meal was wild boar served with a 15-year-old California wine. Yet at 5:30 a.m., Sebastiani breakfasts in simple style with workers at a roadside inn, pausing on a drive to the vineyard. "All day long I drive around in a pickup truck and wear overalls...