Word: tomato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each Monday night the High Table begins with pre-game social drinks in the Junior Common Room, where the House's dinner guests can meet the battery of tutors and undergraduates. At six thirty, either fortified with tomato juice or mellowed with sherry, the whole company files into the House dining hall to eat the regular fare with "a little extra" at the long, raised table at one end of the room...
...road and gasp, 'Go on without me. I can't make it.' " Once home, however, the boys soon forget their difficulties. "Gee, it was great!" they tell their parents. "We waded for miles in the brook and hit Mr. Cochran right in the face with a tomato and put rocks in his pack till he could hardly walk . . . Boy, we had a keen time...
...there was danger that "our precious liberties might be snatched away from us by a clever underground conspiracy." The crowd grew restless and began watching a fight between two little kids. "Stop that noise, young ones," said an elderly woman, "and let the man say his words." Then a tomato landed to the right of the speakers' platform, and the police turned about and went hustling through the crowd...
...hours a day, bedding down at night on a shabby army cot outside his office in Abbasiya Barracks, his GHQ. He is up with the buglers (6 a.m.) in time to say his morning prayers and read a chapter from the Koran before sitting down to breakfast (yoghurt, one tomato, brown bread) and the morning papers. By 8 he is in his office-where King Farouk's picture has been ostentatiously turned to the wall-drafting DROs (Daily Routine Orders), interviewing local commanders, dictating replies to his morning mail (1,000 letters daily). Most of the letters he answers...
...critics on the Opposition benches and the dismay of the performer's friends on the government benches, it became clear that Rab Butler had really nothing new to say. The Laborites jeered and badgered him with questions plump and juicy as an overripe tomato. But this time, brickbats came also from the government's side of the House...