Word: meals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Connally declined to run in 1968 not only because he was fed up; we, the voters, were also fed up. Texas politics is a cesspool, and John Connally is one of the biggest stinkers in it. Connally is the kind of man who could and would eat a deluxe meal in front of a starving child if it would benefit him politically...
Driving the 1,340 miles of Highway 95 from New York to Florida is at best a tiresome two-night, nine-meal trek. It costs about $150 for a group of four. But thousands of vacationers continue to make the grim odyssey rather than opt for relatively cheap air flights, for the simple reason that a Florida holiday virtually demands an automobile, and rentals there during peak seasons are prohibitive...
...Lavish Meal. Unable to find work and oppressed by the poverty of the city, Joe leaves for the West, riding the rails and enjoying the vagrant's life. In every town he sees labor organizers being routed by cops and strikers being ridden out of town in boxcars. It is enough to convince him-if not the audience-that he must join the I.W.W., and the songs that he composes set the movement to music...
...music. The next time Joe Hill appears on a soapbox he has his own I.W.W. song in hand -set to the tune of a Salvation Army hymn. People gather around and the police are temporarily thwarted. In another town, Joe goes into a restaurant and deliberately orders a lavish meal that he cannot pay for! Banished to the kitchen to wash dishes, he persuades the help to strike...
Arunde estimated that "the drive will probably collect about $2000, but the figure could reach $5000 depending on whether the rebate for each meal is 60 cents...