Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every house is a Russian house. On the city's main thoroughfare the Russians maintained their own commissary, a steel-shuttered building crammed with excellent wines, vodkas, caviar and cosmetics. In the embassy itself we found expensive radios and photographic equipment, heavy silver ashtrays and a completely cooked meal which the Russians never...
Administrative leaders of the University will sit at Lowell House's first high table of the year tonight to help celebrate the House's 20th anniversary. To suit the occasion the meal will be served by waitresses, and "on china, not plastic," stated Elliott Perkins, Housemaster and Lecturer on History...
Later he drove on to Campagnola. While he was eating a hearty lunch accompanied by a quart of sparkling Lambrusco, a Communist leader burst into his room. "How old are you?" snapped the Red. "Forty-eight," answered the Minister of the Interior, looking up from his meal. "Ah," sighed the Communist, "You made me lose a bet. I just laid down a thousand lire that you were 52 at least." Scelba's bodyguard, who this time had managed to stay by his side and were fully expecting an assassination attempt, sighed with relief, and Scelba took...
About 575 men in five graduate schools will live in the seven modernistic dormitories on Jarvis Field. The eighth hall, Harkness Commons, can serve 1,200 men eat each meal and has extensive lounge facilities...
...Expecting trouble during the night, I loaded my shotgun with small shot. But nothing happened. Only the hyenas roared and the jackals barked hoarsely over the remnant of the festive meal...