Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Soon after canal negotiators reached agreement last week, Panama's strongman, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, lunched at his Pacific Coast hideaway known as Farallon (meaning "small rocky island in the sea ") with TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin. Following a meal of sancocho (Panama's national soup) and hot chili sauce, Torrijos offered the following comments...
...familial gathering around the groaning board, with Granny presiding over steaming tureens of garden-fresh vegetables. It means a quick take-out order from the local Kentucky Fried Chicken or Pizza Hut, with plenty of potato chips and soft drinks to stave off the pangs until Dad carts the meal home. The kitchen is where the wrappings are thrown away...
Stephen is currently backing up his grill with a corny promotion campaign featuring TV spots and live demonstrations in shopping centers around the country, during which "Sammy Scorch" messes up a meal on an old-style barbecue while a nattily attired "Freddie Flavor" prepares smokeless dinners on his Weber...
...American medical students. Room, board, tuition and incidental expenses amount to only about $3,000 a year, perhaps a third of the cost of attending a private medical school in the U.S. Money also goes further for entertainment. The best opera seat costs no more than $1.50, a sumptuous meal only $3. Perhaps because of their spending power, the Americans (some of Rumanian descent and thus far mostly men) have no trouble attracting female companions. One student told TIME Correspondent David Aikman that he had so many Rumanian girl friends he could hardly fit them all into the twelve-hour...
Doesn't this show where the student priorities are and, if so, isn't it all a bit perverted? One hundred-sixty students march to eat a hot meal, feeling Dean Fox is oppressing them and overstepping their rights, while they shun away from issues involving the University's indirect support of some of the world's most oppressive regimes. This is outrageous, but it certainly doesn't show that students are outraged by Harvard's investment policies...