Word: sandwich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that night in West Virginia when he lost the critical presidential primary to John Kennedy, he was an open wound for a few minutes. But then he gathered himself up in that moth-eaten room of the old Ruffner Hotel, went over and fixed himself a salami sandwich from the table of things he had personally bought for the victory celebration. He began right then to climb out of defeat back to his sunny pinnacle, a journey that he would repeat and repeat...
...beginning, there was the Block. Between Lexington and Third Avenues, 54th and 53rd Streets, it housed such familiar neighborhood establishments as Carroll's Pub, Lexington Sandwich Shoppe, a Pizza Plaza, a Howard Johnson's snack counter. Also, there was a haute cuisine restaurant, Café Chauveron, the Medical Chambers Building, owned cooperatively by 40 doctors, and Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, a handsome two-spired Gothic structure erected in 1905 and all but deserted by a suburban-bound congregation...
...last month, in fact, has been like a sandwich with fresh rolls and leftover salami The Dartmouth game was immense. The Penn performance was awesome enough. In between, the Princeton and Brown contests were farces. In particular, the Princeton fiasco, where only an adequate performance was needed for Harvard to be fighting for sole possession of the title tomorrow...
...state job almost casually last month, that was not how he obtained it in the first place. Vellucci enjoys relating the story of how, in 1949, he decided to sell his small family restaurant in East Cambridge (the mayor claims among his culinary achievements the invention of the hero sandwich roll), and then went looking for a job. Naturally, the first place for a young politician to look in those days was the State House, so he finessed his way into an interview with then-Gov. Paul Dever. Dever, the story goes, was so impressed with Vellucci's reputation...
...assault on expense account dining that would allow only half the cost of a meal to be tax deductible. In his campaign Carter conjured up a vision of privilege and corruption by pointing out that a three-martini business lunch was deductible but not the $1.50 bologna sandwich of a worker...