Tip O'Neill, the speaker, was appalled to find that the only victuals available were coffee, juice and a roll.
The procedure does not always work; some patients are so addicted to food that they eat small amounts of calorie-rich victuals almost constantly, even gaining weight.Bariatric surgery's complications, price and growing frequency have put it under a spotlight.
But the Googleplex is famous for its good and free victuals, doled out at food courts throughout the sprawling campus, and for the casual mixture of play and work.
Belief in providing for the needs of the dead seems to have been the root of the widespread custom of burying with the body or burning victuals, utensils, treasure, slaves, or wives.
For this statue the temple kitchen staff prepared daily meals from victuals grown or raised on the temple's fields, in its orchards, in its sheepfolds, cattle pens, and game preserves, brought in by its fishermen, or delivered by farmers owing it as a temple tax.
Some of his crew suspected that Hudson was secretly hoarding food for his favourites, and tempers flared when Hudson ordered the crew's own sea chests searched for extra victuals.
Sometimes the smells and victuals defy description but a wander around here is crucial for any visiting gourmand – get here by riding the Chao Phraya river bus to Tha Ratchawong pier.
It's a not-altogether-lost world of what are now no doubt retro-chic victuals – salad cream, beetroot in vinegar, Angel Delight, Spangles, Sherbet Fountains and bars of Caramac.
Still reading, he ate the pale victuals that needed no teeth.
For a blink, I considered sneaking out, but then he turned — a veritable hillock of victuals on his plate — and looked at me with no surprise whatsoever.
"Victuals to her are something to inject into the body as fuel to keep it going," her son James wrote in a memoir; and Eleanor rather liked being seen as a person who was above petty appetites, especially when she could imply that F.D.R. shared her asceticism.
