Word: menu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professors with a penchant for horse steak have had to go without for the last two weeks. The Faculty Club was to drop it from the menu when their New York meat broker announced that his source had run out. According to Charles L. Coulson, manager of the Faculty Club, horse heat is "mostly for cat and dog consumption, but during World War II when there was a meat shortage, it put on the menu, and it's been there since...
...about two ounces.) At first, say the authors, the dieter will have to consult the tables to avoid ordering lima beans (15 gm. of carbohydrate to an average serving) instead of green beans (a mere 3 gm.). Afterward, they claim, it will be easy to run down the menu and pick poached filet of sole, champagne sauce-"perhaps one gram for the flour in the sauce; highly recommended"-or filet mignon, béarnaise sauce-"one gram for the eggs; no danger here." But as for a chocolate malted and mocha layer cake, "150 grams!-jamais...
...long before such ceremonial White House functions ordinarily start to break up. The tables in the State Dining Room and the nearby Blue Room featured strictly Democratic chinaware: the Truman dishes in the dining room, the Wilson and Roosevelt dishes in the Blue Room. The menu honored the principal guests: the seafood was a la Golden Gate for California's Warren; the chicken was a la Bay State for Massachusetts' McCormack; for Humphrey there was wild rice from Minnesota...
Furthermore, because she is living in an academic environment, she must spend a good deal more time thinking about her physics assignment than about the evening's meal. In fact, living in a dormitory isolates her from such considerations as planning a menu. Save for the small percentage who live in their own apartments, cooperative or off-campus houses, Radcliffe girls must spend four years in a peculiarly incomplete atmosphere. The dormitory forces them to study without the distraction--or perspective--of running a home. They may gripe about meals, sweep their own rooms, invite their professors to dinner...
...promised that Labor would cut mortgage rates to a ludicrously low 3% from their present 6% levels, which might appeal to house-hungry slum dwellers, but which to most informed Britons would merely sound like confirmation of Sir Alec's allegation that the Labor economic program was a "menu without prices." Harold Wilson committed a gaffe of his own, charging a "Tory plot" behind a strike at the Hardy Spicer factories that threatens to idle Britain's whole automotive industry. He was promptly slapped with a slander suit by the Hardy Spicer management while Sir Alec chortled "panic...