Word: snacking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...civilized countries, and the Kitchen where natives of Home often indulge in excessive culinary delights. Be aware that as a visitor, you will be expected to consume large amounts of local fare. Refusal to accept native cuisine will in many cases be considered a personal insult. (Note: The word "snack," common in native vocabulary, is often used to describe the local custom of consuming food every five minutes.) In the evenings, attractions may include rented movies, video games, visits from tribal chieftains from remote regions and little brothers rolling around on the floor in front...
...minute she got home she'd have this breakdown," Glassberg says. Glassberg has carefully built an after-school routine of household tasks and time-management techniques to help her daughter focus. "You'd be asking the impossible to have my child come home, have a snack and do her homework right away. So instead, she comes home, lays her books down, and we go for a walk around the block. It gives her time to vent and re-attune herself...
...always been thus. In this twice-a-year ritual of calling, I have often failed to raise funds sufficient for much more than a snack. Often I would gripe to myself that they had given me the dregs from the list; realistically, I also attributed these dismal results to my own weak salesmanship. This time, things started no better. Of the first dozen classmates I called, not one answered the telephone. Where were all those likely donors when I wanted them? To have nothing to show after a half-hour's work further depressed my already low expectations...
...when Moody, then 35, found her way to the unobtrusive three-story building known as Genesis House. Tucked close by Chicago's Wrigley Field, Genesis House is a place where hookers try to go straight. Seven days a week, around the clock, women turn up for a shower, a snack or a shoulder to cry on. They are never pressured to give up life on the street. Women like Moody are allowed to decide whether to embark on full-scale, residential rehabilitation. "We're here to plant the seed, not to be judgmental," says outreach worker Gloria Moya, a Genesis...
...went a couple of extra stops and made $10 giving him oral sex under an apartment-house stairwell before getting back on the train and reaching her destination.) Now in her ninth month of rehabilitation, she's a new woman, unfailingly polite and quick to offer a visitor a snack or a cup of cocoa. Her days are organized around counseling, classes, household chores and visits with a caseworker to help her win back custody of her kids. On Sundays she can sometimes be found sitting in front of the TV in her best dress, watching televangelists...