Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most impassioned messages to those assembled dealt with the basic world hunger for bread. In the Civic Center auditorium, Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe said that if each U.S. Catholic fasted for one meal a week, the money saved could buy $2.5 billion worth of food for the needy each year. (By such fasting over the past year, U.S. Catholics had already saved enough money to buy a shipload of rice, which they sent to Bangladesh during the congress.) Brazil's activist Archbishop Helder Camara called the world's unequal distribution of wealth "the greatest scandal...
...robbers also attended to their other appetites: they apparently brought along a chef. Using a gas-powered portable stove, he whipped up a four-course meal that included soup, charcuterie, an entrée, dessert and wine. The robbers brought no dishes with them, knowing there would be plenty of fine silver plate available...
During the 20-minute meal we talked about many different things, Mondale speaking with typical senatorial dispatch, my fellow delegate abnormally reticent out of the same nervousness that made me unusually talkative. We told him how the Mississippi delegates' high image of their senator, James O. Eastland (D.-Miss.) was dashed. Eastland had been talking on the phone behind a cloud of cigar smoke when the two arrived in his office. He motioned to them to sit down, saying "Be with you in a minute boys." And then, after hanging up the phone, an explanation: "Sorry for making you boys...
...problem with typical verve: he and his younger brother Billy and son Chip, 26, partially drained the pond, plunged in as deep as their shoulders and netted the fat catfish, bass and bream that were swimming around. Later, Carter and other amateur cooks dredged the fish in corn meal, deep fried the catch over open coals for 15 minutes in boiling peanut oil (of course), piled it into brown paper bags to absorb the fat and then dished it up with hush puppies, coleslaw and home-grown tomatoes...
...earl, a passionate gambler, dislikes rising from the gaming table for the sake of a meal, so he has devised the practice of placing a slice of meat between two pieces of bread, a dish sometimes known as a "sandwich...