Word: mealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Devine see any diminished appetite. Nixon ate his crab claws with gusto as the Sequoia plied the waters of the Potomac. He chewed through a good slice of roast beef, ate carrots and beans, polished the meal off with ice cream...
...types of the most banal sort: the eldest boy flirting with the black revolutionary movement, the eldest girl suddenly getting pregnant at age 15. And so on. But then what can you expect of a movie about blacks in which the main love scene is preceded by a meal of fried chicken? Thank heavens they did not have watermelon for dessert, but that is about the only cliché of black life the film has avoided. Richard Schickel
...Meager Meal. India, which had been one of the major success stories of the Green Revolution, is now seeking commodity aid from the U.S. because inadequate rains coupled with fertilizer shortages reduced recent harvests. With perhaps half of its 600 million people living at or below the subsistence level -eating no more than one meager meal daily-even a slight drop in food production can have an enormous impact. If drought returns to India this year, tens of millions of lives will be threatened...
Lunchtime came; it was more like a funeral than a wedding feast. Well, maybe that's going too far: it wasn't so much like a funeral as it was like a meal served at the bedside of a critically ill patient. Afterward, Eisenhower suggested we go back to Washington by car. If we'd both been more satisfied with the outcome of our talks, it might have been a pleasant drive. But we weren't and it wasn't. I asked some questions just to be polite, and he answered with a few words...
...steak. "It was the worst I've ever had," Ava said. The late Winthrop Rockefeller, who liked to dine on Terrail's homard à 1'Américaine and Pouilly Fuissé, once humbly asked le patron if he would accept a personal check for his meal. Novelist James Jones asked Terrail to cash his check for $1 million. "I'm short of cash," said the owner, "but I'll open a charge account...