Word: meals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombed after a glass, while another stays relatively sober after several. Because alcohol is diluted in the blood, a 200-Ib. man can usually tolerate more liquor than a 110-lb. woman. Food also retards absorption of alcohol from the gastrointestinal tract, and a few ounces taken with a meal are less powerful than an equal amount downed an hour before. By the same token, some drinks with food in them-eggnogs made with eggs, milk and cream, for example-have slightly less wallop than straight drinks. The tomato juice in a Bloody Mary or the orange juice...
...this night different from all other nights?" a child would ask at the Seder, the ritual meal on the first night of the week-long feast. Why the matzo? Why the bitter herbs? Then, as the family followed the rites set down in the Haggadah (literally, a "telling"), the old story would unfold: the bitter slavery under the Pharaoh and God's scourging of Egypt with plagues until the children of Israel were set free. And always, that last terrible plague, when the wrath of God slew the first-born of every Egyptian but passed over the houses...
Frank J. Weissbecker, associate director of Harvard Food Services, yesterday criticized the proposed extension of the Massachusetts meal tax to colleges because he believes it could cause up to a $50 increase in board charges next year...
Board charges for next year are presently $1000; the 5 per cent meal tax imposition could raise this amount by as much...
Tredinnick said if Metaxas decides to impose the tax, AICUM will "late file" a bill in the state legislature seeking exemption from the meal tax for colleges...