Word: meals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Union Advocate, a labor weekly, had charged that Minnesota House Majority Leader Ernest Lindstrom was taken to dinner by a liquor lobbyist, with the result that proposed liquor tax increases were dropped from pending legislation. Lindstrom protested that he had paid for his own meal and encountered the lobbyist only casually toward the end of it. He said that he personally favored the higher tax, and voted against it only to get a compromise bill passed by his colleagues. Lindstrom demanded a retraction from Union Advocate Editor Gordon Spielman, did not get it, and took his case...
...accumulated carpet of guano in some sections of the woods is a foot thick. No one can figure out why the birds chose this particular town or how to drive the intruders away. One man wrote the mayor with a gruesome plan for overkill: "You mix coarse meal with plaster of paris and feed it to the birds. It's sure to stop 'em up." But nothing has worked-not even a Radford-like barrage of noise-perhaps because the infested area is so much bigger. As yet, there seems to be no "final solution...
...restaurants, and has very few friends in Hollywood. On taping days, he lives on little more than milk and honey, or the turkey noodle soup that he carries in a flask everywhere he goes-his life is awash in turkey noodle soup. "I mustn't eat a full meal before taping because I'll be sluggish," he says, "and it'll throw my timing...
Hughes dresses in a white shirt with no tie, slacks and loafers, and wears his hair just above collar length, slightly longer than in the past. He eats only two meals a day, although with his hours it may never be clear which meal is breakfast and which is dinner. He favors salads, fresh vegetables and lean meats. He drinks only milk and fruit juices...
...scrubbed his hands and fingernails. "I would cook his steak with a stop watch," Schenk recalls. "He wanted it medium rare, eight or nine minutes of the grill. He'd notice if it was a minute overdone." If Hughes was on the phone when dinner was served and the meal cooled, it was thrown into the garbage and another was prepared...