Word: menu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...margin, the action has the effect of furthering the cause of the strikers, but administrative vice-president L. Gard Wiggins was careful to explain away even that small political gesture. Harvard wasn't taking a position on the strike, he said, grapes just won't be on the menu...
Wiggins stated, "Grapes are not on the menu and will not be on the menu in the foreseeable future." It is unusual for Wiggins to involve himself in food planning; this is generally the province of C. Graham Hurlburt, director of the Food Services Department...
Wiggins emphasized that his announcement does not constitute an official Harvard position in the grape strike dispute. The plans for the next two menu cycles (which encompass the twelve week period), he said, just do not include grapes...
...reach a makeshift airstrip that is only open at night. When correspondents finally manage to get in, they are shuttled off to quarters in the Progress Hotel in Aba, the country's provisional capital. When they are not in the field, they face the hazards of the Progress menu. This consists of yams-fried for breakfast, boiled for lunch, baked for dinner...
...presents another challenge for the kosher housewife. Friday is usually a day of frenzied activity-cleaning, shopping, preparing meals in advance for the tranquility and family intimacy of Saturday. There are some personal satisfactions. At sundown, after the wife lights the candles preceding the traditional Sabbath-eve dinner (typical menu: gefilte fish, matzoh-ball soup, chicken or beef, potato kugel), the husband often chants an ancient song of praise for his wife. Drawn from Proverbs 31, it begins: "A good wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels." Says Mrs. Baris: "I obviously don't need...