Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twisting Before Breakfast. All in all, Britons agreed that it had been the jolliest royal clambake in memory. It was happily unmarred by the malicious cluckings that counterpointed Princess Margaret's marriage to Photographer Tony Armstrong-Jones in 1960. And, Londoners noted proudly, it attracted 70 members of Europe's royal families...
...Oxford activities, which provide ample opportunity for meeting their speakers, and excuse for calling on local VIPs. There are the academic clubs (philosophy, history and so forth), the newspaper Cherwell or the magazine Isis, the political clubs, the religious groups. Just because dons don't join him for breakfast, must the American sulk and feel injured...
...digestive tract, asthma, and Allah knows what else. When eleven doctors converged at his bedside, things looked, from the outside at least, pretty grim. It turned out that Saud was complaining about his liver (his own remedy: banana puree in Chantilly cream with five scoops of ice cream for breakfast), and his blood, for which his doctors quickly ordered bottles of plasma as a precaution. Saud's spokesman reassuringly squelched the flurry of worry. "The doctors are there," he said, "not because the King is very, very sick but because of the importance and the power of their patient...
...understand what has happened to his mother. But he can't quite do it till he finds one of his goldfish floating belly up in the tank. At the sight he screams insanely and has to be slapped to his senses, but next morning he bounces up for breakfast as though nothing had happened...
...there in the plane, talking and munching factory-made fried potato chips. They were nutritious and tasty. And they are cheap." Khrushchev's plug for cornflakes was equally enthusiastic. Many people in the U.S. and Britain, he reported, happily breakfast on "vitaminized flakes of corn which are eaten with milk." Unfortunately, he added, "we consume corn in niggardly amounts because industry does not produce the foods we need...