Word: breakfaster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Payan stressed that he was not suggesting that the contras had committed no atrocities. His statements too seemed part of the continuing propaganda war: he was presented at a Washington breakfast arranged by a public relations company that has done work for the State Department...
...borrowed binoculars of an American adviser, of a wave of North Vietnamese tanks coming toward us." Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott chronicled the dwindling American presence in Viet Nam in 1973-74. "It was possible, in those fading days of the war," he says, "to eat breakfast with my family, drive out of Saigon for a morning's action, then return for a gossipy lunch." William McWhirter, now bureau chief in Bonn, reported from Viet Nam for TIME and LIFE during several tours from 1965 on. He had his final assignment there in 1975, covering the South Vietnamese...
...example, Stanley will eat a certain break-fast-say, two tried eggs-on the first day of a tournament he says. If he wins, he will continue to eat the same breakfast. If he loses, he will eat something else...
...said he read the story and didn't digest his breakfast too well. The more he read, the more upset he got, he said...
Prior to the OAS speech, Alfonsin held what was probably the most crucial of all his meetings in the U.S., a breakfast session with Jacques de Larosiere, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF had promised Argentina $1.4 billion in special credits in return for compliance with a severe anti-inflation program. Last week, however, the IMF suspended further disbursements of its funds on the grounds that Argentina is failing to meet specified austerity targets. Commercial banks did the same...