Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lost the election for Governor of California in 1962. She urged him not to seek office again, but stuck it out stoically when he did. When the two dined alone, the silence was so uncomfortable that servants rushed about to meet the Nixons' obvious wish to get the meal over with as quickly as possible...
...veritable blasphemy is threatening some of the world's best kitchens. It is the notion that people-even the French-can enjoy a memorable meal that contains only 500 calories instead of the 3,000 or more that tradition demands. No longer, as the old adage had it, need a Frenchman dig his grave with a fork. The blasphemer is an impish, outgoing, pint-sized ex-pastry chef named Michel Guérard, 42, who has invented la cuisine minceur-the cuisine of slimness...
...keeping the law at the state level--have come up with their own proposals for maintaining an intramural brand of rent control. Some tenant groups lined up with the city to push for local control; others, seeing what they think are dire effects of making rent control a piece-meal local affair, have turned to non-legislative action...
...state-wide bill has come from two groups who have raised the basic question of whether locally empowered and administered rent control can work at all. The two groups, the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC) and Citizens for Participation in Political Action claim that local rent laws are piece-meal and ineffective in the face of strong landlord opposition...
...pause even a second before blurting: "I avoid it like--Wait, I take that back. Once in a while, when I walk with my friends and we pass a typical American restaurant, I turn to them and say 'Hey, let's go in and have a greasy, disgusting, slimy meal."' If Vitelli doesn't seem to mind the grease, it's only because, she says, "There's a lot to be gained from the cultural experience alone...