Word: sandwiched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when they please, sunbathe on the hospital roof, play cards, browse in the gift shop, receive visitors from noon until 8 p.m. One man got permission to go home for some summer shirts when the weather turned warm. A housewife used to get a midafternoon snack of scrambled-egg sandwich and caramel sundae. Exclaimed she: "I had no idea being in a hospital could be so much fun. I did have one problem today. I just could not find a fourth for bridge...
Miriam Goldnne consulted the office background file. All this took three hours. Over a sandwich and coffee at his desk, Riesel listened again while Miriam read aloud the accumulated story notes. Then he wrote his column, from time to time asking help: "Read me the citation in the Kefauver report ... I want exact figures on the Sun Valley land deal." It took him one hour and 3^ triple-spaced typewritten pages, each full page breaking neatly with a finished paragraph...
Only in the Southern states and the Union of South Africa would a Negro from a university be denied the right (or is it a privilege?) to sit down and eat a sandwich in a public place...
Epithalamium. In London, Susan Stranks arrived ten minutes late for her wedding to Robin Ray, explained breathlessly: "I was so nervous, I had to have a brandy and a ham sandwich." Pressed. In Vassar, Mich., the Tuscola County Pioneer-Times ran a classified ad: "Dry cleaning for delivery yesterday must be received by noon tomorrow at Clark's Cleaners...
...crept back from depression's bottom, business improved at the drugstore, and Humphrey found time for simple pleasures. At a dance in the Elks' Hall, he met Muriel Buck, a pretty Huron College student. Muriel began eating her lunch at the drugstore ("I could throw a wicked sandwich together," says Humphrey), and after two years Hubert proposed. In the evenings, in their three-room bungalow, Hubert told Muriel of his restlessness, of his desire to finish his education and to get into the political swim. Finally, at his wife's urging and with his father...