Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solitary Meal. From Soummam, Abbane moved on to his toughest job: Algiers itself. By December 1956 eleven bombs a day were exploding in the streets, and the city was on the verge of collapse. The French replied with General Jacques Massu and his paratroop division, who fought the F.L.N. terror with equally brutal terror. In two months Abbane's underground was smashed, and he escaped to Tunis minutes before he was to be arrested...
...vittles-laden Feast of the Lamb, celebrating the twelfth anniversary of his marriage to his blonde "Virgin Bride," Edna Rose Ritchings, 33. While red-jacketed "Rosebuds" sang "All the Angels Love You, You Are So Beautiful, Lord," fading Father Divine jangled a silver bell to start a typical meal at his Philadelphia headquarters for some 125 followers: seven meats, two kinds of fish, ten vegetables, salad, desserts, coffee, milk and fruit juices. On the subject of halting H-bomb tests, he made his position clear: "I haven't had anything much to say about that because I believe that...
...calculus for meeting food costs is the College regulation that undergraduates in residence must sign up for twenty-one meals a week, to be paid for at a flat rate. This method of assessing board charges accords with neither the realities of meal attendance or any canons of elemental fairness...
...face, the existing board schedule presupposes that every undergraduate attends every meal. This fiction is far from the case, as the politburo of the Central Kitchen openly admits in its standing contention that savings on missed breakfasts permit better main meals. Yet one clear objection can be raised against this compulsory twenty-one meal system: that it is unfair to make students pay for meals they do not attend. Next year's rise in board rates makes this traditional argument even more justifiable...
...poll deals with all aspects of Dining Hall service and asks for specific food likes and dislikes as well as opinions on the general philosophy of "you can eat all you want if you can stomach it." The questionnaire also asks for comments on a proposed 14 or 15 meal weeks with reduced board rates and asks students to rate the "attractiveness and quality of the food...