The family leaves over enough food from Sunday dinner for Monday lunch and dinner.

They hermetically sealed the kettles to accelerate the cooking.

[…] I was part of the project selection team that met each year at the Office of Naval Research, to accept or reject funding requests. […] Of course, the projects that made it up to our top level had already been triaged by lower sponsoring commands. One of the briefers was a real comedian, introducing himself as from the Department of Redundancy Department—a phrase I am fond of quoting in my own talks since then.

[…] the same crowded conditions in each of the five one-room and my friends' two-room (for five adults) subapartments of the communal apartment.