Word: sandwiches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dewey had a chicken sandwich and a glass of milk and sat down again before the television set. Across the land, listening at radios, people sat with their score cards, waiting to play the game of Presidential Bingo...
Private Life. In Washington he lives at the quiet, dignified Hay-Adams House, across Lafayette Square from the White House. He rises at 7, eats breakfast in the House restaurant because he likes the toast and can talk to fellow Congressmen, lunches either in the House restaurant or cloakroom (sandwich and pie), dines at the Hay-Adams...
...trouser crease or an even hemline. There is only a hushed attentiveness, as their eyes move studyingly from the speaker to the faces of their conquerors of three years ago. Occasionally, there sounds the discreet rustle of wax paper as a representative of the people unwraps his brown bread sandwich, neatly folds the paper and tucks it back in his pocket for future use. The linoleum floor beneath their feet is spick & span because this group has nothing with which to litter...
...maggot-ridden yet, Hoffman went back downtown, inspected the empty floors in the Maiatico Building, ate a peanut-butter sandwich in a nearby pharmacy, and met reporters again in his old State Department building offices. A French reporter asked him for a word for Europe. Said Hoffman promptly: "The only reason I'm in this damn job is that I have good will for Europe...
Only the secretary's report went uncontested at yesterday's meeting. Cheers, applause, an occasional floating sandwich wrapper, and lively debate from the floor punctuated discussion of the status of the N.S.A. delegate, the $12 Student Activity Fee, and permanent compulsory subscription to the Radcliffe News...