Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never allowed sugared cereals when I was a child, which is why they became such a fetish for me. When I got to Harvard, it was like, "the forbidden fruti," Lucky Charms, Cocoa Krispies, I can eat as much as I want. I had Lucky Charms for breakfast for like, four years, straight. It's a wonder I have any teeth. Count Chocula is another one of my faves, I think it's the marshmallows, but I think it's just the concept that you can eat candy for breakfast, basically, just totally fascinates and enthralls me. I think like...
...cool kids were. The Sophomore class repeated this feat one more time, and--here comes the kicker--that same day the administration voted the entire Sophomore class "to be dismissed from college and be ordered to leave Cambridge immediately after Commons; which for that class are to cease after breakfast." The class left town without too much trouble before noon that same...
...reforming Social Security, even if that meant trimming the benefits of the seniors currently receiving them. Now Gramm is leading the battle to phase out the earnings threshold that limits the benefits of well-off recipients. Wilson, like most of the others, is punting altogether. At a March 30 breakfast thrown for him by Henry Kissinger in New York City, Wilson deflected a question about Social Security: until the public is better educated about the problem, he said, politicians can't deal with it seriously. On this one, at least, Dole has displayed some of the courage he hopes will...
West, a lifelong migraine sufferer, was used to weird sensations in his head. So when he felt a familiar woozy pain coming on, he downed a tumbler of Cognac and went to bed. The next morning his breakfast coffee dribbled down his chin and his words turned to mush. These symptoms of a mild stroke quickly cleared, but not the cause: cardiac arrhythmias that required the planting of a pacemaker in his chest. West variously refers to this retrofit as his "titanium tit" and that "little lead soldier ... making a small battuta on my suet...
OVER A BANANA-AND-DIET-COKE BREAKFAST, SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH MET with TIME editors and correspondents last week. His office is decorated with mementos, including a handwritten note by Ulysses S. Grant. It says, "I propose to fight on this line all summer if necessary...