Word: snack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COFFEE consumption in 43 Washington cafeterias and snack bars for Government employees has dropped from 44,000 to 34,000 Ibs. a month in five months. Reason: the Administration has cut payrolls, and warned against frequent coffee breaks. Exception: the Pentagon, which serves as much coffee as ever (about 30,000 cups...
...ball and whap it down a fairway. For indoor escape from tension, he likes a few rubbers of bridge. In the White House, Saturday night is usually bridge night. The evening begins about 5 o'clock, in the solarium on the White House roof, is interrupted for a snack or buffet supper, then may continue down in Ike's second-floor study until 10 or 10:30. Guests arriving for a bridge date are likely to find the host waiting for them at the card table, impatiently riffling the decks...
...governor, read another statement in Japanese ("I shall never forget the magnificent sight of the Golden Gate Bridge, the tranquillity of San Francisco Bay, and the beauty of the city as seen from the sea"). In the midst of the shipboard ceremonies, the Prince took time off for a snack of hot dogs, hamburgers and potato salad...
...Gann would get what she wanted. Mr. Gann, however, is left wholly unprovided for-which is exactly as I feared. I refuse to abandon him in this crisis. I do not intend to let this matter rest until I am assured that he will have at least a snack wherever he goes...
Last July one Floyd McFall and his wife Sylvia used their savings to open a little restaurant and soda fountain between the post office and the bank. They were ignored; almost everyone who wanted a snack away from their own kitchens went, as always, to the lunch counter in the J. F. Hathaway Market & Grocery across the street. Morose, 58-year-old McFall, an ex-house painter who had lived his whole life in the town of Adrian, only twelve miles away, was considered a stranger...