Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred and fifty dining hall workers voted overwhelmingly last night to avert a strike and accept a piece-meal wage formula offered in confidence by the University on Friday. A new contract for 460 union members is expected by the end of the week...
...Flowers from the University Florest, a meal ticket from the University Luncheonette, a Harvard scarf from J. August, stationary from Bob Slate's a book from the Harvard Book Store, a record from Briggs and Briggs, tickets from the Brattle Theater, perfume from the Coop, and cigarettes from Philip Morris Company" were the gifts accompanying the title of Miss Cliffe...
Shocked and angry. Desai declared in a strained voice: "So long as the citizens of Ahmedabad do not hear me peacefully, I shall not take food. If Gujarat is eager to cremate me, I am ready. Let it prepare my funeral pyre." Then Desai, who normally eats only one meal a day anyway, hurried off to his brother's Ahmedabad home and began fasting...
...Every meal became an occasion for intellectual talk. "Since the first night," says one student, "we have scarcely talked business to each other -though that was all we had to talk about the first night." To their own surprise, the biggest hit was the poetry readings by ex-Rhodes Scholar Edward Weismiller. "I pay $2.50 for a book," said an insurance company vice president, "and I get $2.50's worth of good out of it. But that Weismiller gets $10,000 out of the same book." Added Gorden E. Willett, a Farmers Insurance Group office manager: "I used...
...were startled, but his mother remarked defensively that food was scarce in Canton because Red China "is saving to build for the future." "I and young men like me," announced little Li Po at this point, "will be masters of the future." A pall of silence fell over the meal...