Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before breakfast was over, women would start thinking about their dinners. The big dish would be turkey or goose or, in the Rocky Mountain States, perhaps venison. In New England there would be squash and plum pudding, in the South rice and yams, in Texas a big cut-glass bowl of homemade, ruby-red agarita jelly...
...Besides rice, the main staple of Japanese diet is fish. To catch enough fish for 72,000,000 Japanese to eat, both raw and cooked, for breakfast, lunch and dinner, it is inevitable that a huge number of Japanese should have got a sense of the sea. Like the isle-bound British, the isle-bound Japanese are primarily seafarers...
...destroyer, faster by 25% than any of the 41-knot, steel-hulled speedsters the Navy is getting, and nimble-footed as a seagoing cat. "Skipper" Burgess had patented the design in 1937, had tested it, as well as he could without a full-scale model, from hell to breakfast. What worried Navymen was the material that Burgess had to use to get his speed-and-footing effect: aluminum. The Navy could not have had a seemingly good design thrown at it at a worse time, when aluminum supply (and magnesium, needed for alloy) is as strictured as the flow from...
From across the Kaw River, artillery began to pound. Eighty armored cars poured across the bridge at 40 m.p.h. Fifth columnists appeared at intersections to direct motorized cavalry and infantrymen in trucks. Governor Payne Ratner was captured at his big white mansion while he was at breakfast. His two sons laughed at the show, but his tiny daughter squalled. Over at the Statehouse the Governor was lined up with other hostages. A noncom grated, "Take off your hats...
...cavalry had Topeka under control. Said Governor Ratner, before he went back to his interrupted breakfast: "We should thank our heavenly father that we have only make-believe blitzkriegs in America today. And we should be eternally grateful to the men who are taking this training so that none will ever reach our shores...