Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to provide bread for needy Americans in disaster or high-unemployment areas. The Agriculture Department would be authorized to process surplus wheat into flour and surplus corn into meal for distribution to the states through the Health, Education and Welfare Department...
...Walston has the cards, and all the best lines, stacked in his favor. Red-haired Gwen Verdon, as a witch Applegate imports from 'Chicago, sings a little and dances a lot. If you've heard "Whatever Lola Wants," you may have dismissed it is standard juke-box gruel. The meal may seem finer after you watch Miss Verdon grinding it. She also takes part in a prolonged number called "Musical Chairs," which has no end of possibilities and no beginning of realizing them. That dance ends the first act and an obvious song about baseball training rules opend the second...
...marriage with "an act of deceit." "If men are not free to marry the women they choose," said Barak, "they lack an elementary freedom." He served notice that if the Knesset would not consider changing the law, he would "fast until the end." A fortnight ago, after a final meal of shish kebab and beer, he stretched out in a Tel Aviv hotel with the announcement: "I was willing to die for Israel's freedom during the war, but I believe a free family life is an even nobler cause." Life for Law? Israelis at first shrugged their shoulders...
Most of the tables in the dining hall are four-seaters. After a meal has been served for a half hour, however, you would never know it. Winthrop men have come and gone, pulling chairs from here and there, gathering in larger and larger groups. This informality extends to relation with tutors, for it is a race day indeed when two or more tutors are seen eating together...
...body was brought to the burning ghat near the same temple, the new King's subjects were ordered to go-and pay homage. Men shaved their heads and donned mourning clothes of unbleached cotton. For 13 days no Nepalese would take salt, eat more than one meal a day, or sleep on anything but straw. As the flames licked at the royal cadaver, thousands of Nepalese set up a mournful wail. But King Mahendra was not present; Nepalese custom demanded that he alone of all his late father's subjects must show no grief...