Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Addressing his remarks to a series of questions from the Council concerning reductions in the number of meals undergraduates are required to take each week, he said that even if the 18-meal board contract had been placed in effect for 1958-59, "it still would have been necessary to increase the board rate...
...longhand. Though he naps for an hour or two after lunch, Hoover is far from having slowed his overall pace: he works seven days a week. Almost every night he has guests for dinner, which is preceded by two martinis (the only time he drinks), and he follows the meal with canasta, at which he is a whiz...
Tales and Last Tales (TIME, Nov. 4). In Babette's Feast, a French cook wins a small fortune in a lottery and spends every penny of it showing her staid, stingy Norse employers what a real meal can be. In Tempests, the actress who is to play Ariel in The Tempest gets caught in a real storm at sea and becomes a heroine by behaving as Shakespeare has taught her to behave...
...tone here varies from sobriety to total jest, while wit serves as condiment to an otherwise dull meal. Talk jumps from underdeveloped countries to outer space, and "How do we know we're the most developed country, anyway?" Then back to slave trade and the Barbary Pirates. Or a doubleedged solution to both farm surplus and foreign aid problems might be presented. "Just give the farmers a sabbatical every other year on the condition that they spend this time abroad." A neat panacea, but impossible...
Satisfied customers agree about the inadvisability of paper dragons, give the traditional Chinese sign of appreciation for a good meal and depart...