Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...logs, with camouflage over them. They were full of ammunition, rice, medical supplies and gasoline. Rubber pipes connected a pump in each depot to a nearby river, so that drivers could get water for themselves and their trucks. Signs instructed visitors to PLEASE PARK THE TRUCK, HAVE YOUR MEAL, YOUR DRINKS AND PLEASE SIGN IN AND OUT. Another sign read: THE ROAD IS HARD, BUT WE WILL MAKE...
MENTION the words "good food" to a standard group of Americans, and nine out of ten will begin to salivate in the privacy of their own mouths. A good meal, like sex, means many things to many people. To those who like to cook, making good food means having an unqualifiedly wonderful time. Cooking is creative, therapeutic, and chancy. It wins you friends and makes you the life of any party. Most important, with Julia Child, it isn't boring...
...enough of this replay of our own lives, especially now when we have a sense of the beginning and the end of what was once full of buoyant hope. I just don't know anymore. You have to think in the end tha this book is like a Chinese meal; a half hour after...
...ambassadors meeting in Berlin to negotiate the city's status had developed a ritual of retiring after each session for a long and lavish luncheon at the residence of one or another. In an effort to accomplish more business, it was decided that the Americans would cater the meal during one meeting. The arrangement did little to promote détente, however. The mistrustful Russians brown-bagged their own caviar and vodka. The Americans-chacun son goût-served hamburgers. No agreement on Berlin is in sight...
...many economy flights of medium range, American, United and TWA have substituted sandwiches for meals and done away with midday snacks. The cost for an economy-class hot meal ranges up to $3.50; a sandwich and trimmings is well under $3. Quite a few of the lost amenities are barely missed by most passengers. For example, soup is no longer served to first-class passengers on some flights, and stewardesses now ask passengers whether they want cream and sugar with their coffee; many do not. The price of cocktails on Eastern and National has been raised from...