Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tough, autocratic man, well suited to his unforgiving job, "a man willing to work all the time who's trained his children to work the same way." The Cook place is a model modern establishment with all the signs of a good farm: "clean fields, neatly painted buildings, breakfast at six, no debts, no standing water." Life is a round of chores -- the endless regimen of meals, the canning frenzies, the tireless pursuit of new and fancier equipment...
Half a cup of instant coffee. Then a cigarette. Then, let's see, yeah, here's half a can of Coke left on the table, room temperature, no more fizz. Slug of Coke, swallow of whiskey, same again. Breakfast...
Fritschel, a cross country runner, says she faithfully performs the same routine--"sit ups, toe lifts, contacts out, brush and floss, go-to bed-early-because-I-have-to-go-to breakfast-or-my-day-isn't-complete-without-it"--every night...
...Historical Study A-12, I've tried to establish peace treaties with the various factions (millipedes, moths and flies-oh my!) in order to set up a relatively peaceful balance of power. Case in point: if the "fishermen" of the lake agree not to include me in their breakfast hunt, I promise not to flatten any more of them. Unfortunately, we seem to lack a common means of communication, and our conflicts continue...
...Breakfast...