Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father was known far and wide as "Wise Mike," an emigrant from Serbia who followed the gold rush call to Alaska in 1898. Wise Mike was rugged and sometimes mean tempered, and there are those who say he won his nickname with wise-guy answers to everything. His breakfast appetizer was four or five coffee royals-a couple of slugs of bourbon sweetened with a dash of coffee-and his hobby was seven-deck "pan ginney" dealt out at the Pastime Cafe. Wise Mike laboriously scratched dust for 30 years before he came up with a modest gold strike...
...branded products, including the nation's best-selling coffee, Maxwell House; its biggest-selling frozen foods, Birds Eye; such old staples as Baker's cooking chocolate, Jell-O and Swans Down cake flour; and its top-selling dog meal, Gaines. General Foods' products go from breakfast (Post's cereals) to warm nightcaps (Postum, Sanka), also wash the pots and pans that its foods are cooked in (S.O.S. Scouring Pads...
...with a penknife on the arm of a chair. In council meetings he made such a habit of pilfering snuffboxes that his ministers resorted to bringing their snuff in cardboard boxes. Worried about becoming fat, Napoleon stoked himself through the day with licorice flavored with anisette. He bolted his breakfast, wolfed dinner in only 15 to 20 minutes...
...stayed for six months; the next year she went back and put in a full year's study at Kyoto's Nanzenji Temple. Each day she rose at 5 a.m. to meditate for two hours before breakfast, then went to the temple to meditate from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a few minutes off for a meager lunch. After supper at home she would return to the temple for meditation with the monks until 9:30 at night, then return home, take a bath and meditate until bedtime, around midnight. In 1944. after her husband...
...Hollywood's imperial-sized Palladium ballroom. 1,850 members of the Los Angeles Motor Car Dealers Association gathered for a $5-a-plate breakfast and a lecture from one of the industry's top salesmen. After the ham and scrambled eggs, Chevrolet National Advertising Director William G. Power, as fervent a car salesman as ever lived, gave the dealers representing every U.S. make his considered opinion of the current state of the U.S. auto business. Said Bill Power: "Gentlemen, for 30 long years I've spent my life trying to kick hell out of Ford and Plymouth...