Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper will offer liquid refreshments and a tour of the facilities, as well as general instructions on the horrors-to-come for those who eventually decide to try out for one of the boards. Radcliffe editors urge their schoolmates to join in the fun of publishing Cambridge's only breakfast daily...
...pitching talent, will attempt to avenge a four-game sweep by the famous Yanks of 1927--the last time the two teams met in a World Series and the last time Pittsburgh won a National League pennant. Casey Stengel's Yanks rule a 13-10 favorite, but Cambridge's breakfast table daily--along with the Pittsburgh press--will stick with the underdog just...
...discount house with springs. His 49-square-foot bed has a control panel hooked up with three television sets (plus a portable for emergencies), an air purifier to combat his asthma, a tape recorder, and gadgets that close curtains and regulate the air conditioning. Two secretaries arrive for breakfast, and while Red eats they play a newspaper "Brain Game" with him, firing general information questions at him. If the phone rings, he shudders. He has such a phobia for telephones that he will talk to no one but his wife and manager...
...previous books (The Straight and Narrow Path, Silk Hats and No Breakfast), Author Tracy has savaged Irish clergymen and patriots, Spanish politicians and bureaucrats. In her new locale, the lush, sun-smitten Caribbean, she lays about her with equal ferocity, whacking British do-gooders and culture vultures, U.S. tourists "with their national air of being permanently engaged in relief work," and the swaggering, capering West Indians, who are lambasted as fake primitives, phony intellectuals and adult delinquents...
...visual anecdote that combine to produce some astonishing effects. In one scene the tenderness and bliss of a whole honeymoon are pressed into a moment when the young husband wakes in the same bed he had used as a bachelor and, listening to his bride as she cheerfully makes breakfast, lifts in silent wonder from beside his pillow one of her fallen hairpins...