Word: snacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 75 new items are included in the revised 400-item index, as a result of a survey of 12,000 families in 66 cities. Among the new items: funeral costs, home-and auto-finance charges, hotel-motel rates, snack prices, parking fees, college tuitions, and the prices of textbooks, magazines and paperback books. Among the prices that have been dropped are those for such items as rolled oats, men's work gloves and lemons, which have become less significant in the family budget of the 1960s...
...table at his sister's house. "It was intermittent solace which he welcomed but which he was in the end always glad to escape. Now there was no escape." He learns gradually that his wife is a "woman." They quarrel and make up over a midnight snack: "They went to the bathroom and got their teeth. They went down to the sitting-room and ate large pieces of cake...
...story Hodge building is the tallest apartment house in Alaska, with 177 apartments of up to three bedrooms, bachelor officer quarters for 39, lounges, 28 laundries, rows of freezers, snack rooms, playrooms and hobby rooms. A network of tunnels connects the Hodge and other buildings, including a schoolhouse with a capacity of 200 pupils. Beyond all this is an assortment of service shops, a boat shop, telephone exchange, gymnasium, fire station, warehouses, steel docks-and a $5,500,000 power plant with enough juice (6,500 kw.) to supply a town of at least 2,000 people. The place...
...example, the President invited 14 foreign correspondents to the White House for a snack, some drinks and conversation. The scene was the second-floor living room, generally considered to be part of the President's private quarters; flames crackled in the fireplace, cheese dips and hot hors d'oeuvres were served, and a small bar had been set up at one end of the room. After about an hour, the President conducted a tour that included his own bedroom, where mauve-brown pajamas were neatly laid out on the turned-down covers...
...Curators of the Louvre and the Met can only drool at the accumulations of Egyptian sculpture, Louis XV and XVI furniture, Sevres porcelain, 16th century enamelware, and wall upon wall of Goyas, Rubenses, Watteaus and Fragonards. When Philippe and Pauline have tea, their dog Bicouille is sometimes served a snack off an aluminum dish placed upon a napkin spread over their expensive rugs. Says Pauline: "We are fortunate, of course, in that we can take ten or twelve servants when we travel, and thus can have things done the way we like them wherever...