Word: meals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michael refuses to eat at the soup kitchens, preferring to panhandle for a meal: "I don't like to be around those people. It makes you feel like some sort of crazy. Before you know it, you're one of them." He keeps a tear in the left seam of his pants, just below the pocket; when he panhandles among commuters, he tells them that his subway fare fell out of his pants. When that fails, he wanders past fast-food outlets, waiting for a large group eating near the door to get up and leave. Then he snatches...
...Japan. "I would work all day long in the school, thinking only of going out in the evening and how I would be able to get up off the floor after dinner. My sister and I were the only women, and the men hardly spoke to us during the meal. Once each evening Tsuji would call to me at the other end of the table, 'Fisher-san, how do you like this?' 'Delicious, but what is it, Tsuji-san?' I would ask, and he would answer, 'The ovary of a pregnant sea slug.' And that was my conversation...
Overtime costs for keeping the Union open for an additional half hour--from 7 p.m. to 7:30--are roughly equivalent to extending dinner by fifteen minutes in all 13 dining halls which serve the meal, said Assistant Director of Food Services Benjamin Walcott...
...that. I didn't go beyond people I knew. I just didn't reach out. Then, all of a sudden, with my husband in prison, he was suffering, I was suffering. Yet we knew that others were worse off. We didn't have to worry about where our next meal was coming from or whether our children could go to school. So then, I guess, I started to worry about other people. I guess I identified myself with the victims of Marcos' injustice...
...priest was unequivocal: "You must be certain that the person you select is very different from Marcos. Then it will be easy." There it was -- the idea given flesh in a way that Aquino intuitively understood and could translate to the Filipino electorate. By the end of the meal, she knew what she would...