Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby Decatur (est. pop. 75,000) for five operations to correct a complicated no-gullet anomaly. Last week, out of the hospital in time for her fifth birthday, she was eating normally, tasting and swallowing food, for the first time in her life. She even had sausage for breakfast...
...were to live his Harvard years again, Beebe writes, "I would make certain changes for the better, such as no drinking champagne for breakfast and fewer bad cheques fobbed off on temperamental bootleggers. But they were wonderful years in a wonderful world of Mercer runabouts . . . Upmanns from Leavitt & Peirce and the reasonably low bail conventionally set at Boston's Precinct Station 16 for Harvard undergraduates...
...approaches the cash register. Number 709. What? Yes, this is my first time in for breakfast. What's that? Someone already used that number? That's ridiculous. Check again. See, what did I tell...
...next to Krim. He was returning to Cairo from the Conference of North African Arabs and, after an initial coolness ("I took you for a Frenchman"), he dropped his natural wariness of strangers and began to talk. Once started, he talked so steadily and passionately that he left his breakfast of omelet and chicken untouched. Time and again, as he tried to explain and justify the terrible momentum of the nationalist rebellion in which he was caught up, the same word came out: injustice...
From the very moment that Sir Robert Walpole, George II's First Lord of the Treasury, moved into it in 1735, it began to be the center of British power. Queen Caroline would breakfast there, and then return to the palace to persuade her weaker husband to do just what the gallant Walpole suggested. But in its varied career as the home of the Pitts, the Disraelis, the Gladstones, the Churchills and lesser men who have guided the history of Britain, one thing about the narrow, unassuming house has remained constant. Jerry-built as a real estate speculation...