Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cambodia has become a net exporter of rice. There is food available, but so much is reserved for export that the standard meal has become fish gruel and banana leaves. Even that is served in communal dining halls, which helps accomplish two government aims: to break up family life and limit opportunities to hoard food, which is needed for escape. Family names are being wiped out in the new order. Cambodians are now referred to by their controllers and the government simply by surname, with the term met (comrade) in front. Comrades are expected to do what they are told...
...Johannesburg. It is a peaceful countryside of rolling brown hills, white fences and grazing cattle. In Van Tonder's home, his small study is crammed with books in Afrikaans on the Great Trek and the Boer War. In the Afrikaner tradition, extra places are always set at meal times for neighbors who may unexpectedly call. Van Tonder is proud of his heritage, but worried about his country's future: one of his sons is serving on the Angolan front in the army. Last week TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter spent a day with the family and filed...
Each Tuesday morning these four, together with representatives from the National Security Council and the State Department (who speak only on international questions), meet for breakfast in the second-floor executive dining room at the Treasury Department. For up to two hours, usually over a meal of scrambled eggs and sausage, they debate policy priorities; Blumenthal presides...
...prices! An 18-oz. jar of no-name peanut butter at Jewel costs 34? less than Skippy; a 14-oz. bottle of no-name ketchup costs 22? less than Heinz, and 25 Ibs. of dog food sells for $2.80 less than Gaines Meal. Says Jewel President Walter Elisha: "Consumer response has been overwhelmingly favorable." That is not hyperbole. One morning, Star stacked 500 cases of no-name tuna in twelve of its suburban stores. The 6½-oz. cans sold for 59? each, v. 89? for Star-Kist. Though the food chain expected the supply to last a week...
...patients: "Distraction isn't what's needed. Perception is." She advises the ailing to be candid as well but reminds them of Hemingway's definition of courage as "grace under pressure." To relieve physical discomfort, she encourages friends to help on the simplest level: "Cook a meal, do the dishes, mend what needs to be mended, water the plants, answer the phone." To a woman who had refused to discuss her cancer with her husband, she said: "The fact is, you are bearing [your illness] now, but alone, which is infinitely more painful than if shared." What...