Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon's words were wasted on the Republicans, however; the Democrats control Congress. After a Friday-morning breakfast caucus, Democratic leaders announced that they intended to ignore Nixon's warnings and might even try to override any presidential veto, though it is questionable whether they can muster the required two-thirds vote. Accordingly, they sent Nixon the mine-safety bill despite his threat. Though Congress appropriated $19.9 billion for HEW-roughly the amount Nixon requested-an additional $1.1 billion in spending is almost certain to be added later. Thus, the move was not likely to influence Nixon. Similarly...
...commonplace as the village church, and "hanging days" were occasions for revelry. In London at the "Tyburn tree" (the present location of Marble Arch), crowds of 100,000 or more assembled to watch the festivities. Distinguished visitors to the ceremonies at Newgate prison were often invited to remain for breakfast. "And if there were no more than six or seven hanged," according to one chronicler, the guests "would return grumbling and disappointed ... After breakfast was over, the whole party adjourned to see the 'cutting down.' " In 1800, a boy of ten was sentenced to death for "secreting notes...
...Fever (1924) by Olivier's National Theater Company set off a flurry of revivals and re-evaluations. The times seemed right for a look back at gaiety, and soon the brittle sophisticate of legend, clenching a cigarette holder and dashing off pages of decadent dialogue before breakfast, had become the grand old man of the English theater...
...asked me what I was going to do. I said I'd probably hang around the commune awhile. She said she thought she would go somewhere else and look for her husband. She exchanged her sleeping bag for a smaller one that was in the bus and left before breakfast. As we were splitting up, we wished each other luck...
About 9 a.m., a group of 60 students raced down Quincy Street and entered the Faculty club through a back door. A sprinkling of Faculty members eating breakfast, 15 club employees, and eight guests were asked to leave...