Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurriedly, the State Department put out an official apology. Wilson Flake, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, forestalled an official protest to Washington from the Ghana government by making a public statement that this was "an exceptional and isolated incident." President Eisenhower invited Gbedemah to breakfast with him and Vice President Nixon at the White House, put on an Eisenhower tour of the historic White House first floor, explained frankly that "little bits like that happen all over the place and you never know when they'll blow up or where...
...City, Kans.. educated at Texas Military Institute, ordained in 1937 at San Benito, Texas, veteran of years of church service at Waco, Texas and at the famous St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Richmond (where Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee worshiped during the Civil War), devoted breakfast time next day to a talk with Governor Orval Faubus. He got what he thought was a promise of support for constructive mediation. Afterwards the bishop got a letter from Faubus replete with subtly inflammatory Faubus phrases (e.g., "to place the blame it would be necessary to reach far beyond...
Marshal Sarit's bloodless coup so surprised Bangkok diplomats that most of them heard of it at breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
...waiting, Billy Wallace, British-born stepson of U.S. Author Herbert Agar and heir to an iron-and-coal fortune. But Billy and Buckingham Palace denied the report. Meanwhile, down in Venezuela, a faithful escort of yesteryear, R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, was surprised by a photographer while at breakfast aboard a Japanese freighter in the port of La Guaira. After tossing a plateful of fried eggs and chips, rolls and jelly at the man, Townsend recovering his aplomb, said, tightlipped: "I won't say anything about the royal family...
...Happy Homecoming." By such signs last week, Californians knew that Bill Knowland was home and running hard for governor. Flying in from Washington, Knowland made his first appearance at a state fair breakfast in Sacramento, got a mixed greeting from Fellow Republican Goodwin Knight. "I hope you have a happy homecoming," said Governor Knight with a restrained smile, "and I wish you success in all your endeavors, with the one exception I am sure you will understand: your possible candidacy for the office which I now hold...