Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Highland Home. Above the slopes, where derby-hatted women miners pick and sort the greyish-blue lumps for milling, are Huanuni's strings of company-built miners' homes. Over a cow-dung fire, Sabino Perez' wife cooks the evening meal of potatoes; because of the low boiling point at 12,800 feet they come out of the pan almost as raw and hard as they went in. Blue-cheeked children huddle inside the windowless, dirt-floored, one-room hut to escape the biting mountain wind. Within are a bed, two chairs, and a four-inch figure...
...recently wrote letters to editors suggesting that harsher punishment should fit the crime of burglary, interviewed a prospective cook who told him that she was not only adept in the kitchen but was most interested in re-reading some of his books. He hired her. After serving one meal, she left, taking with her A.P.'s family silver. Said the police later: the cook, better known as "Mary Jane," had a record of bilking some 50 other households in much the same way. Said A.P.: "It is some consolation that we were taken in by an expert...
...invariably drinks a cup of tea on rising and takes an icy shower immediately afterward. At his mess, grace is said before each meal. He insists that his shoes be coated with a combination of vaseline and boot polish at night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes...
...main problem now is a financial one. This year has for the first time an all-inclusive costs fee under which the student's board for the entire year in included. In precious years he could sign for 14 meals a week or 21. Of course, most fraternity men signed for 14 and ate in the fraternity men signed for 14 and ate in the fraternity seven or so times a week. Now Yalemen, like their Cambridge cousins, are paying for every meal, whether they...
...lack of visibility. About 100 miles out, the engine sputtered; Davis investigated, and found that there was no diesel oil left. To op-operate the engine he emptied the stove of kerosene, using that instead of diesel fuel. On docking all piled off for their first full meal in 41 days...