Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting of the British and Canadian Medical Associations in Toronto last week hardly expected to hear a lecture on miracles, and certainly not one from a fellow scientist. But Dr. John R. Brobeck, 41, professor of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania, surprised a group of them at a breakfast session with a discussion of the subject that turned out to be the sensation of the convention...
Sacrificial Calf. Recently some top Democrats have been working quietly to heal the breach between the National Committee and Governor Allan Shivers, who helped swing Texas to Eisenhower in 1952. Last month, during a Capitol Hill breakfast given by the Speaker of the House, "Mr. Sam" Rayburn of Texas, Chairman Butler and Governor Shivers conferred in the serving kitchen and agreed on an informal peace pact. Shivers privately agreed to choose a new national committeeman from Texas in place of his friend, Wright Morrow, long rebuffed by the National Committee...
...morning throat and tries again. A dewdrop tumbles from its cobweb couch. Fox cubs yawn and blink in their cozy ground, while overhead the lilies languidly unclench. On the nearest farm the cock insults creation, which unexpectedly replies. A vixen darts among the spluttering hens and carries off her breakfast...
...morning last week she toyed with the hot fudge sundae she had ordered for breakfast. The gas chamber execution was scheduled for 10 a.m. At 9:05 the governor's office called and postponed the execution because the State Supreme Court had been asked by Barbara's lawyer to hear a new argument. At 10:26 a.m. Governor Goodwin Knight himself called, said the court had rejected the request. A remote-reading stethoscope was being taped over Barbara Graham's heart when a third call came at 10:43, delaying the execution. A new petition had been...
...least five times a year every undergraduate hears the chestnut about the freshman who wore a coat and tie to breakfast one morning--and just that. It seems that he was determined to carry out University regulations to the letter. Whether or not this story is true, dining hall biddies have been so concerned this spring about keeping the undergraduate well-clothed that the incident is easy to believe. Another slightly less plausible explanation is that the cleaning biddies have communicated their perennial aversion to shorts, acquired from their habit of sweeping around those strewn on bedroom floors...