Word: menu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hapsburg lip either, but he did have cigar boxes chockablock with $1,000 bills, though no one ever got really close enough to find out if they were real. He scooted around in a Duesenberg and gave fancy dinner parties (guests remembered, later, that a waitress always read the menu...
Principally, sex and food. But the Army Quartermaster Corps, which has studied mosquitoes intimately in hopes of crossing soldiers off the mosquito menu, has discovered that the insects are complex psychologically, and react to a long list of stimuli. Last week it released its findings...
Tories had nothing to sing about either. Said a realistic young Conservative M.P. over his dinner of creamed chicken and peas (on the a la carte section of Labor's new House of Commons menu): "It's been a bit of a blow to the Government . . . but I don't know that it has given us Tories much more hope...
...College has been inexorably forced to shade the quality of its offerings. Tutorial, in many departments, is a memory; classes are too big and growing bigger; section men are scarce and overloaded; crowding in the Houses has cramped their ability to function as leisurely intellectual incubators. However nourishing the menu may remain, its flavor has grown noticeably flat...
...every street in every capital of the world." The French greeted their guests with culinary reminders of what the man in the street was up against. The British delegates faced a dinner of cauliflower, spinach and ice cream. The Russians got beets, apple pie and coffee-a hotel menu to which the Soviet Embassy hastily added steak. The prudent Americans had wisely arranged for U.S. Army food...