Word: sandwiched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beach. He is hit by a bullet, sits down slowly with his legs apart, like a child about to build a castle of sand, then falls backwards to die. An other shot showed Ike sitting on the running board of an old car in North Africa, chomping on a sandwich, while Franklin Roosevelt sat on the seat above him, also eating a sandwich. Both men were talking with their mouths full. It was the day that Roosevelt told Eisenhower that he would be the supreme commander of the Allied invasion of Normandy. Dozens of rare moments like those were assembled...
...mind yet," he said. He drove off again, stopped at one point to move Gail into the trunk of the car. Later, after sundown, he put her back into the rear seat, tied her hands to a door handle, went into a grill in nearby Norwalk, bought a chicken sandwich and gave it to Gail. Then he raped...
...spindly ladder, and climbed 150 feet to the rig's platform, where a helicopter was awaiting him. At an airbase on the mainland, they crammed Boggs into a flight suit, strapped him into a two-seat jet trainer, clapped an oxygen mask on his face, took away the sandwich he had been clutching, and rocketed him back to Washington...
...concessions, into the proper province of HSA. But the late-evening snack is decidedly sinister. By a pre-HSA ruling of the Committee on Solicitations no delivery men or solicitors are permitted in the Yard or the Houses after dark. The same ruling made an exception for the student sandwich vendors with the little wagons and loud voices. Pizza could also be delivered at night, it was decreed, but only by students. Today the student vendors are HSA employees, but nothing else has changed. Since 1957 three attempts have been made to provide pizza delivery, but none has proved profitable...
...lure members and their guests to the board and bar. Membership rolls have been expanded while services have been curtailed; a drink costs as much as or more than it does at the restaurant around the corner, and many a club member is doing well to get a ham sandwich on a summer weekend...