Word: breakfasting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...navy physical examination, which includes swimming tests and various calisthenics feats, all men will be classified according to their general fitness, and those who do well will be permitted some choice concerning the type of athletic work to be done in the training periods. In addition to the pre-breakfast periods in which men will alternate mile runs and calisthenics, the NROTC will devote three hours each week to conditioning, and others, carrying lighter drill schedules, will exercise for five hours...
...morning Operations sent around men, woke all crews. After their breakfast they were all carried in many trucks to have their briefing. The target was to be Messina, Sicily's ferry terminus. The huge briefings broke into small briefings, in which formations were assigned, navigational data set out and targets defined...
...sparked with many an engrossing anecdote (for example, about the New York Herald Tribune's onetime ban on words like "blood" and "sexual"; the bizarre way staffers on the old Paris Herald lived; the innards-corroding strain of working on the "lobster" (night) shift, where "every meal is breakfast...
...around in a black Packard. He revisited his old school, Winchester, talked to the boys about India, saw the movie Colonel Blimp, once complained: "One word of command from me is obeyed by millions . . . but I cannot get my three daughters, Pamela, Felicity and Joan, to come down to breakfast on time." In India, where the nationalist press criticized his appointment as vigorously as censorship allowed, he was likely to have more troubles than that...
...wealthy, hell-to-breakfast sons of the late strong man President Leonidas Plaza of Ecuador were whooping it up last week. Reared to fast horses and bullfighting, habituated to settling disputes with gunpowder, the Plazas each in turn had taken violent exception to the way Ecuador was being run. Galo, the eldest, defied Quito's Police Minister. Captain Leonidas, the second brother, paced a Garcia Moreno cell, restive from a year's political imprisonment for leading an armed revolt protesting the Peru-Ecuador border settlement (TIME, Aug. 17). Lieut. Jose Maria ("Pepe"), the youngest, refused to return...