Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting dressed the private who had been leaning on the coat rack when we had started walked over and looked at my sheet. "Made it, ch?" He smiled. "I hope you haven't lost your meal ticket." I had been issued a meal ticket, worth 90 cents at the Army Base cafeteria; I hadn't lost it. "That ticket is a good deal," said the private. "That's not for mess hall crud, that's for real food." I thanked him, put on my tie, turned in my forms, and went down to the cafeteria. Ninety cents at the Army...
...devotes as much as 14 hours of each day to prayer, including the daily Mass and the offices, some of which he sings with his brother monks in the monastery chapel. Each sleeps some seven hours-half in the evening and half in the early morning. The two daily meals, silently delivered to each house by a lay brother, make a frugal diet: rice or beans, eggs or fish, fruit, bread and water or wine is the main meal. From September to Easter the second meal consists only of bread and water...
Personal incentive helps run the work system. The work chairmen who are elected or appointed to run the program in each House are rewarded by being exempted from work themselves. In return for this benefit they see to it that students show up to wait at the meal shifts and take bell duty...
...most of the dormitories different girls are on bell duty from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. During this time the bell-taker rings rising and meal bells, and sorts mail and puts it in boxes. She also deals with delivery men and cleaners. At the end of the day, after seeing that all men have left, she locks up the dormitory...
Fortunately for student waitresses the administration clings to 'gracious living' only to the extent of having one sit-down non-cafeteria style meal a day. Dinners at week day suppers and Sunday lunch are waited on individually, the rest of the time waitresses put food on a serving table and carry away dirty dishes from the side-boards...