Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student in the early years christened the building Eaton House, after the second president of Harvard. Eaton forced the closing of Harvard for a year when he ran off to Jamaica with the entire college endowment after it was discovered that the meat he served to students was maggot-ridden...
...child-related matters, whether that involves family planning, child rearing or, if a marriage breaks up, child support. Says Tanya, a Moscow teacher who, like many of the women interviewed, requested anonymity: "We have no time to philosophize about our role when we have to worry about finding meat for dinner...
Life thus consists of a procession of countless lines, this one for meat, that one for vegetables, a third for milk. Each of those queues becomes two or more lines, as the consumer moves from the selection counter to the cashier to the pickup point. Because of food shortages, accumulating frozen and canned goods is virtually impossible, so shopping becomes a daily necessity. Women must then make their way home, toting unwieldy shopping bundles onto crowded buses and along often unpaved footpaths, to prepare meals for the family. Housecleaning, like cooking, is done largely without the help of modern appliances...
...punishment for its violent contributions to the intifadeh (uprising). Electricity was cut; cooking gas dwindled. As the men languished at home, the women organized survival. Around 3 a.m. most days, groups of women sneaked out of the camp and hid in nearby villages. During the day, they bought scarce meat and vegetables; at night they slipped back into Jalazun to feed their families...
...streets. With few jobs in the West Bank and resistance to working in Israel itself, most men spend their days idly ( meeting on street corners. A Jalazun laborer who made $400 a month before the intifadeh is now lucky to earn a tenth of that. "We no longer eat meat," says Ali Abdul Khadar Khalil, 56, father of nine. "People are getting desperate." But, he adds defiantly, "any people searching for independence must remember it can't be achieved without suffering...