Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...equivalent of 50? in her purse, she came to the capital city of Wellington. There she rented a house on credit, begging packing cases for furniture, and opened her doors to the city's orphans, homeless, aged and ill. Anyone who was hungry could come for a meal, which was passed through a sliding panel in the wall so the recipient's face need not be seen...
Captain Karpe walking forward in the train to the diner. He passed through the crowded Bucharest day coach, sat down at a table with an American student. Karpe complained a bit about his aching leg, drank only a bottle of seltzer water for his meal. Then he left the table...
...while she'd go downstairs and start playing the piano at 3 a.m." Father would say 'Oh, dear God, here we go again!' She liked to cut portrait silhouettes, paint with water colors, and bake fancy cakes and cookies, but cook you a decent meal...
...door bolted. She allowed her banker and her lawyer to call only at long intervals. On rare occasions she received her cousin Hollis Gale-usually asking him to bring a collection of menus from other hotels to be sure the Seymour was not cheating her on the prices of meals. Though she loved beef and cheese she felt they were too expensive, and never ordered them; a bellboy brought one meal a day to her suite. She refused to let anyone see her sign her name, and never made a will...
...Meals & Mopes. The domain he inherited includes five high schools, eleven junior high schools, 63 elementary schools, a special school for crippled children. It is a $40 million domain that comes alive each morning with the shouts and cries of 56,000 schoolchildren flooding through its classrooms. On the surface it is a casual world of blue jeans and T-shirts, sweaters & skirts, bobby-sox and loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle...