Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Kastoria, a worn woman of 55 cooked a pot of beans-a meal for eleven people-while unemployed men sat silently on crates and battered luggage...
...Kiss from Lafayette. Whitman Specialist Allen serves a full-course literary meal, and he takes his time about it, but anyone who sits patiently at his table will leave it fat with facts. Walt Whitman was born in West Hills, near present-day Huntington, Long Island, in 1819, but was taken to Brooklyn at the age of three. His father was a good carpenter but a poor provider, who spouted Tom Paine to his eight children. Walt had a skimpy schooling, and the most dramatic event he later recalled from his childhood was the day Lafayette, on a triumphal visit...
Among the Houses, after one meal, Lowell was the leading donor, with $17.34, followed by Kirkland with $15.83. Bunched together in third place were Winthrop ($12.62), Leverett ($12.57), and Adams ($12.21). Dunster House has contributed $9.54, and Eliot gave...
...cook can carry on a conversation from anywhere in the kitchen without touching the phone. Heavy roasts can be moved by nudging a traveling tray that hangs from the ceiling; food can be carried outdoors on a serving cart powered by a battery. With dual-control ovens, a meal can be started in the kitchen and finished from an adjoining patio. For barbecues in the house there is a special gadget that passes charcoal or hickory smoke through the oven...
Mendès' quizzical features, the details of his every meal, blazed from the Rome front pages; his pretty wife was acclaimed as "gentilissima." But when Mendès sat down to talk over his European Arms Pool with Premier Scelba, he was less successful. His plan, he said, would make European arms production cheaper and more efficient by enabling each member of WEU to concentrate on those items it is best fitted to produce (The Netherlands, electronics; Britain, jet engines; Germany, explosives; France, fuselages). The Italians were polite but noncommittal...