Word: sandwich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just nine days before her death, Silkwood told company officials she feared she had been contaminated. A check showed that her apartment in Crescent contained fragments of the metal in the bathroom, kitchen and in a bologna-and-cheese sandwich in her refrigerator...
...others or they will do you," was one of his mottos, and it was said that he won the 1921 election against fellow Roman Catholic John R. Murphy by accusing Murphy of eating a roast-beef sandwich, on a Friday, at a restaurant named Thompson's Spa. But many of Boston's Irish and Italians loved James Michael Curley for his charm and his chicanery, as well as for the free hand he had with public funds on behalf of the poor. Curley was famous for having insisted that the scrubwomen in city hall be given long-handled...
After three days of intense hiking and climbing, the 23-year-old geology major was ready to eat a hearty dinner. What he and the other prisoners got instead were three dill pickle spears, a bologna sandwich, re-warmed canned hash, three-day-old stale cake and cold milk. Not allowed to eat any of the food he'd brought in his backpack, Yates eventually went to sleep on a mattress mounted on a steel lathe platform, without sheets...
Harvard managed to sandwich a powerplay score between the two Cornell tallies when senior Gene Purdy popped his first goal since returning last week from a wrist injury that had sidelined him for 11 games...
...seem like a larky subject or setting for a musical, but My Old Friends manages to sandwich a wedge of pathos between large slices of jollity. The characters encountered at the Gold en Days, a retirement hotel, are spunky individualists eager to savor the last drops of life. True, there is a lady (Grace Carney) who stays glued to the TV set, but that gives her life the dimension of constant fantasy. True, there is someone who dies (offstage), a tie salesman (Robert Weil), but only after he achieves his desire to leave something behind by completing a bench...