Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convinced that Milton Williams (a Negro) was guilty of the crime for which he was executed last week-the rape of a 16-year-old Negro girl-but that did not make his 158th execution easy. With prison officials, Reid sat down to the traditional Texas execution eve "breakfast" (scrambled eggs, pork chops, coffee), later leaned casually on a rail, notebook in hand, as Williams entered the execution chamber. But another reporter noted that Reid pursed his lips as Williams took the first 15-second 1,800-volt jolt. The reporter later asked Methodist Reid, "Were you praying then...
...week printer in Detroit, Benny had lived contentedly for years in a $7,000 frame house, saved a nest egg of $5,000 with the help of his thrifty wife. One day in 1950 Benny Hall grew restless, excited, preoccupied. For a week or so afterward, at breakfast he riffled distractedly through the back pages of his morning newspaper. Finally he confessed to his wife:"I'm interested in the stock market...
...Sunday morning at 8 a.m., the Harvard Band will participate in the 21st Communion Breakfast of the Cambridge Police Department. The parada, featuring local dignitaries, will assemble at Porter Sq. and proceed to Rindge Ave. and Our Lady of Pity Church...
...California, Democratic Traveling Man John Fitzgerald Kennedy discovered last week, is a political hotel where beds are soft and the rates are right, but the manager doubles as house detective. Ranging from Sacramento to Los Angeles on a three-day visit, Presidential Hopeful Kennedy got such VIP honors as breakfast with Governor Edmund G. Brown and an invitation to address the legislature. But wherever Kennedy wandered, stern-eyed Detective Brown watched lest Kennedy set up an organization to slip into his valise any of California's convention votes. Reason: "Pat" Brown himself has developed high ambitions about...
...year on maintenance and scale tuition to a boy's means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds, sweep dormitories and classrooms, wash dishes and mow lawns. The one concession to femininity so far: for arriving at breakfast after 6:45 a.m., the girls may get less strenuous punishment than the boys' fast "jog around the triangle...