Word: meals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barrie used to call me up whenever he got an "admit-two" trade pass, and we'd go together to see the latest in Hammer horror--The Best in the Cellar, for example--and have a meal afterwards. His favorite place was a little dive just outside Soho (which caters to tourists and has higher prices) where for about a dollar you could get an entire chop-suey meal. Having chosen between chicken or beef chop suey and orange or tomato juice, Barrie would resume the conversation he had begun as we walked out of the movie house...
...ONCE OR TWICE a month I turned up at his showings, arriving early to help spread pate on the bread and pour nuts and raisins into the plastic sieve that served him as a snack bowl. On days when I came alone we usually had a proper meal: I think one of the crucial points in our relationship must have been when he served rooster soup. "It's cheaper than chicken," he explained, "and just as good...
...semifinal victory over Leverett's Pete Restivo in the unlimited class. In the process of whizzing around the ring at mach two in the first round, a charging Ferullo sampled the ring ropes as an appetizer, chewed on a little leather for the main course, and finished the meal with a mouthful of plaster as he flew headlong into the IAB wall attempting a daring riposte...
...first day, despite a few flubs and miscues, was the season's best network TV show. With deadpan eye, the camera faithfully recorded Premier Chou choosing choice tidbits for Dick and Pat, like some top-level guide on a Gray Lines tour of Chinatown. Later, when the meal and the speeches were over, the camera with equal fidelity observed the toasts and watched the Chief Executive clink glasses with what seemed like the entire Peking hierarchy. Yet the mixture of high and low, trivial and important, seemed right, and gave the whole affair that touch of verisimilitude that makes...
...example, it was alleged that free rooms for married tutors, particularly for tutors with families, granted them a marginal benefit greater than that available to unmarried tutors. Some alleged that tutors' spouses (in Harvard terms, that means "wives") did not take an active part in the Houses. Tutors' meal funds were consequently cutback, with Richard G. Leahy, assistant dean for Resources and Planning, seeing a drop in tutors' meals as a benefit...