Word: roomed
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Wolfgang Erbe, in his pleated toque, has been strolling the aisles twice a month soliciting passengers' reactions to his food. Commuting between the 17 West Coast airport kitchens where Alaska's meals are prepared, Erbe says, "We want to promote the image of the airline as a moving dining room." With meals like poached salmon and beef stroganoff -- in coach class, no less -- Alaska Airlines spends $7.80 a customer on food, about $3 more than the average for U.S. carriers. This has allowed Erbe, who trained in the kitchens of Hamburg's Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten (Four Seasons), to add venison...
Ministries that once occupied whole buildings in Kuwait function out of single rooms. One can find the Finance Ministry, for example, in Room 311. Surrounded by six chairs, two card tables in the middle of the room offer all the flat work space available. Several phones and a single fax machine connect the ministry with the rest of the world. There are two currency counters and enough calculators to ensure that Kuwait Inc. functions to the proper decimal points. A shredder sits near a large safe, opposite a small television set. But CNN, which everyone is eager to watch...
...maxim that "finance is a gun, and politics is knowing when to pull the trigger." With all its boardroom bickering, the plot is a gun that shoots mostly blanks. G3 is too faithful to the deliberate pacing of the first two films: the slow walking into a dark room, the silence surrounding the threats. For two hours the movie labors up the winding path of its story, wheezing like an old man who won't admit...
...radio and listened to the BBC every hour, also Voice of America, which broadcast messages from home. I heard a dozen messages from my own family. News of the military buildup lifted us too. We thought Bush was really going to invade. We even sealed off a safe room with tape in case of poison gas. All of us wanted Bush to hit the Iraqis. When nothing happened, we began to feel Saddam Hussein would outlast...
Clean, precise writing or speaking requires systematic, sequential thought. Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care. William Faulkner would isolate himself in a small cell-like room and labor over his words like a jeweler arranging tiny jewels in a watch. Thomas Mann would consider himself lucky if, after a full day at his desk, he was able to put down on paper 500 words that he was willing to share with the world...