Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rupert District of South Georgia's Taylor County, Macie Snipes was the only Negro to vote. The day after election four white men called him out from supper. Macie Snipes staggered back into the house with blood gushing from the bullet wounds in his belly. A coroner's jury solemnly reported that he had been killed by one of his visitors in self defense...
After a Russian supper of vodka, cherry brandy, sausages, fried potatoes, more vodka and endless cherry brandy bottoms-up, eight U.S. reporters and their three escorting Russian officers went out walking in Halle. Its streets were lit by a pale moon, traced by the grotesque shadows of bombed buildings. They had not gone a block before the first Germans joined them. By the second block there were 50. By the third every American was walking separately, surrounded by a milling group of Germans, pushing and shoving to say a few words into the correspondents' ears...
Interhouse eating privileges have been a matter of long-standing debate, but a new angle of the problem has been created by the split up of the original classes of 1943, '44, and '45 into college and graduate students. At present men in the Houses can eat supper in other Houses, but no corresponding privileges are allowed between the Houses, the Business School, and the Union dining hall...
...lodge in the Catoctin Mountains, 60 miles from Washington. With them was unobtrusive Lieut. Commander William Rigdon, up from the ranks, now assistant to the naval aide. There were no other attendants. There was no motorcade and no newsmen. At the lodge the Trumans had fried chicken for supper, took in a movie, were abed...
...After supper Frank Anderson let himself down in his easy chair. No, he couldn't kick. This was fine, hard wheat-Class One, every bit of it. His 600 acres would yield about 8,000 bushels. At last week's elevator price of $1.70 a bushel, that would mean about...