Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drove golf-balls from a coco mat into a canvas shield stretched down the starboard side of Canberra's open deck while the ship lolled nearly dead in tropic water. He ducked into bed at 9 o'clock, stayed abed nearly twelve hours, rose for a late breakfast (prunes, oatmeal, toast and jelly, Sanka) and a look at Washington reports radioed or relayed by courier seaplane. The President suggested extra guests for dinner, i.e., Canberra's officers picked two at a time by wardroom draw for never-to-be-forgotten bread-breaking at sea with their commander...
...trim 175 Ibs. spread over his 5-ft.-10-in. frame. Shanks is lean and rosily healthy. As insurance pamphlets advise, he likes to get eight hours' rest most nights-10 p.m. to 6 a.m. He does an hour's calisthenics before eating a sensibly big breakfast. Trlis other meals are light; he tries to keep lunch within 300 calories and dinner within 700. He does not smoke, rarely drinks, and has few financial worries. His salary is $250,000 a year-more than any other life insurance executive. He is a family man, a good Methodist...
...usually begins with a large breakfast in the dining room, followed by a dip in the specially heated pool or a trip to the skeet range. If any practices are held, they are an hour long, and all facilities such as skate sharpening, extra equipment, and the like are supplied by the management...
...Hall is used for breakfast and lunch every day, and often for evening dinners, lectures, and films. Twice a month there are Ladies Nights in the Hall, usually consisting of dinner followed by a lecture or film of some sort. Although the Hall has served as many as 500 at a banquet, there are rarely more than 200 a day for lunch, and 15 to 20 for breakfast. The Club also rents the second floor of Purcell's Restaurant for luncheon; members may sign their checks just as at the Club...
Booked Up. King's post-boycott day begins when he arises at 6 a.m., dresses quickly in a grey suit ("I don't want to look like an undertaker, but I do believe in conservative dress"), takes an hour for reading, prayer and breakfast before going to the M.I.A. office, a small brick building on South Union Street. There two secretaries are already at work, pounding on their typewriters (the association receives and answers upwards of 100 letters a day), or cranking a Mimeograph machine to turn out official notices to the Negro population. King's desk...