Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal, state and local government payrolls added up to $13.5 billions last year, reported the National Industrial Conference Board last week. For the numb citizenry, who have had billions served up with breakfast every day, N.I.C.B. added a fact that gave its figure meaning: $13.5 billions is more than the entire payroll of all U.S. manufacturers...
...tiny planet with three volcanoes and one rose, the contented prince watched the sunset 44 times in one day, tended his rose (served her breakfast, protected her from drafts). Tormented by the rose's awakened vanity, he departed, visited neighboring planets, talked with a king, businessman, lamplighter, geographer (each revealing his occupational foible), at last descended to earth...
...then there was the weekend just past. Even those on the List as a result of the first two quizzes had pul-entee to talk about on Monday morning. Of all this only one remark intrigued us. We asked the girl on our left at breakfast the usual question, "And what did YOU do over the weekend?" and she gave us this cryptic reply: "I did a variety of things...
...This morning we washed and made our beds before breakfast. After breakfast we had our physical examinations, and we were all through by nine A.M. Since then, we have been loafing around the barracks playing cards or writing letters. It is rumored that we'll get our first "shots" this evening...
...lids shut heavily. It was only eleven o'clock, but he'd been up for five hours now. Stan and Don had gotten him up at six. They'd gone over to Hayes Bick for breakfast, sort of a testimonial dinner on toasted cinnies. Cinnies and Bickford's brought back a lot of things. Then over to PBH at 7:30. Vag waited outside of Local Board 47. A silent walk over to the island in the Square, trying to think of something important to say. Nothing. Hurried, cold handshakes. "Don't forget to write," Vag had said. Then...