Word: sherbet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laundry service is Chinese-immaculate and cheap (a shut well ironed for about 50). The hotel has also recognized the F.F.'s paramount problem: What to do after 9 p.m.? Its cavernous eighth floor has been designated Cafe-Bar. Therein until midnight the visitor can eat watermelon or sherbet, sip his choice of poison, from tepid beer to fu-te-ka (vodka), and yak until yawn. Sorry, no floor show, dancing or Hangchow-panky, though such dubious distractions are doubtless only a few short years away...
Frank J. Weissbecker, director of University Food Services, announces that more soybeans will be gradually introduced into undergraduate meals. The "Soybeanization" program will initially concentrate on two of the three beans in Three Bean Salad and may eventually extend to Lime Sherbet, says the jubilant master chef...
...home-coming of the pilgrims is vociferously celebrated. Some families light up the streets and houses with colored bulbs and offer sherbet and sweet drinks to visitors. Friends and relatives and neighbors call on the pilgrims to congratulate them on their trip to the Blessed Land and give them the well-deserved title of "haaj" (male pilgrim) and "haaja" (female pilgrim). Henceforth this title precedes their names, lending them a religious distinction and an honored social status...
Julia and Hellman met in their early teens and remained close friends until Julia's death. The scenes of their childhood games, their visits to Julia's family estate and their austere dinners with Julia's wealthy Upper East Side grandparents-- who serve sherbet at dinner after eating fish to clear the palate before the meat course--are among the best in the movie. In these sequences, the basis for the girls' later actions is established. Julia becomes innocently but intensely aware of the inequalities that will attract her to a workers' community in Vienna, shaking her head sorrowfully...
Ronald Reagan allowed himself a few minutes of gaiety, rather soberly marking his North Carolina victory with orange sherbet and chocolate ice cream aboard his Boeing 727. Then he canceled nearly all of his scheduled campaign appearances and withdrew to his Pacific Palisades home overlooking Los Angeles to prepare for a desperate campaign spectacular: a 30-minute nationally televised speech this week. By attacking Ford's diplomacy and defense policy, and by calling for new national leadership, Reagan hopes to rejuvenate his campaign, replenish his treasury and restore his flagging chances for the nomination. Says Campaign Manager John Sears...