Word: meals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basic to their happiness, and seek to assuage their discontent and to escape their confusion in movies, radio, TV, books and so forth. The modern housewife is content to buy an electric mixer to mix her box cake and to open some cans, in preference to creating an appetizing meal. Her husband argues with his boss for shorter working hours and more pay, and expects the Government or anyone other than himself to make his life secure and comfortable . . . MARY ANNE HAYES Ann Arbor, Mich...
...second operation. This time there were no slipups. There, curled in his chest, was the free end of the makeshift esophagus, still healthy and unshriveled. After six hours in the operating room, Robert was wheeled out with a working esophagus. Last week he swallowed the first home-cooked square meal of his life: turkey and trimmings topped off with ice cream and cake...
Should the well-behaved diplomat belch after a good meal? Should he blow his nose? Such questions, Tokyo decided, might well agitate the 53 ladies & gentlemen of Japan who arrived in San Francisco last week. Result: the Japanese Foreign Office issued a special instruction booklet designed to keep delegates Emily Posted during their stay in the U.S. The booklet warned against...
...wettest June in Paris' memory. "Summer already?" grumped the Communist L'Humanité. "And what about spring? A day without sunshine, or a meal without wine, that's bad enough-but a year without spring, that's indeed a hard blow. And all this is again the fault of the Americans. Not only do they occupy our land . . . but they shut off our sunshine!" The Communist journal then expounded a thoroughly unlikely theory that France's bad weather was the direct result of U.S. atomic experiments on faraway Eniwetok Atoll. "Thus," it cried, "while...
Brother Matthias had his 1,000th "customer" last week. The customers that come to Brother Matthias and his five fellow monks in Albuquerque, N. Mex. are down & outers in need of a meal, a bed and a change of clothes. No. 1,000 was a milestone on their steep road to official recognition as a new order of the Roman Catholic Church, the Brothers of the Good Shepherd...