Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining tensions were broken by three comely stewardesses-Zoya, Lyuba and Ira-who distributed copies of the latest Pravda and served a distinctly unproletarian meal of smoked salmon, red and black caviar, roast beef and white wine from the Crimea. The only inflight problem was noise. Conversation was rendered almost impossible by a loud rushing sound that made the flight seem as though it were taking place in a wind tunnel. Alexei Tupolev, the plane's designer, who was aboard the inaugural run, explained that the noise came from a supercharged ventilation system designed to keep passengers cool despite...
...Preparation-wise, it may be better on the road, but there's still nothing to replace a home-cooked meal no matter how gourmet-ish the restaurant...
Cambridge's city charter follows one of the five plans outlined in Massachusetts state law that provide slightly different relationships between a city's elected officials and its administrators. Each of the charters, like a meal on a Chinese restaurant's menu, has a letter designation. "Plan A" comes with a strong mayor. With "Plan E" you get a strong city manager. Plan A guides the city of Boston--its mayor is also its chief executive, and is elected directly by city residents. Cambridge's mayor is a city councilor--a legislator--picked by the other eight members...
...satisfied with frustrating our breakfast, the deans then plotted against our sovereign rights at lunch by closing the Union to Upperclassmen at the noon meal. After all, we could eat at our Houses, and the freshmen needed some peace and quiet at lunch. I for one felt like Ryan O'Neal must have felt when Ali McGraw told him he had no right to use Radcliffe libraries when Harvard owned ten million books. Sure, I could go back to Currier or test the unknown at Adams, but the Union is closer and what's the $7000 for anyway, guys...
...surprised that a person in Food Services would make a statement like that," Weissbecker said, adding that a meal consisting of a glass of milk, a slice of toast and a cup of instant oatmeal provides about 28 per cent of a person's suggested protein...