Word: meals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hints that they chalk up on fences or walls to guide those who come after them. The cat, for example, conveys the welcome news that a "kind lady lives here," while the canine image warns of a "vicious dog here." Other signs are a cross ("religious talk gets free meal"), two intersecting circles ("police here frown on hobos"), two wavy lines supported by a pillar and sheltering a small circle ("you can sleep in hayloft") and an indescribable squiggle that translates "food here if you work...
With the additional burden of freshmen, each House may serve each weekend meal to an average of 40 per cent more students...
There is also a noticeable squeeze being placed on the House system. Adams House has already reached the point where it can, for the rest of the term, no longer provide meals for its resident and non-resident staff. Proposals are being considered in many Houses to charge rent for resident staff and to further cut meal allotments next year. Both of these proposals would seriously weaken the House system. Meals are the best opportunity available for students and staff alike to meet one another and to interact in an informal and unstructured atmosphere. Rents at the rates being discussed...
...with fire safety I think--that required the light to be sufficient to read a newspaper by, soever though it was dark when I entered after a few minutes I could see the people around me. They'd come in the early afternoon for a good snooze after a meal in the pub around the corner, or sometimes for a bad dream. One day an old man started morning in his sleep, and a woman next to him shoved him to wake him up. Soon they were hard at it, first whispering then shouting, until a man from about...
...appears to be the coming thing. I find that my views are changing contrary to the trend. I have had my "liberation" and the victory is hollow. I find at times I yearn to feel again the exotic pleasure of hurrying home to prepare a man's meal, to iron and clean-not for me-but for him. My inner self is somewhat incomplete in its "glorious" independence...