Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expensive radios can tune in the entire world. In the past ten years something like 18 million short-wave sets have been sold in the U.S. alone. One Manhattan writer, who owns an inexpensive Sony ($115), has made the BBC's morning news an essential part of his breakfast. "My reception is so good," he brags, "that when Big Ben chimes, it sends shock waves through my coffee...
Most sexagenarians would have quietly accepted the sinecure, which carried a lifetime annual pension of $100,000. But idleness was inconceivable to the scrappy Ryder, who still does 50 push-ups before breakfast, despises losing a badminton match and has a third wife 27 years his junior. Says he: "I'm sort of a rough person. I like rough things. Concrete, steel, debris, cast-iron pipes. I always liked working, and I just couldn't get used to working for somebody else, I guess...
...last Christmas as President and First Lady, the Carters followed family holiday tradition. They cut their own tree in nearby woods, carried it home and decorated it. They spent part of Christmas Day with Miss Lillian, who is recuperating from a broken hip, and they had a big family breakfast and opened their gifts...
...Karasiewiczes' overriding concern is food, which consumes 50% of their income and much of their time. The plant in Ursus helps out. It furnishes employees with a hearty breakfast each day (fruit juice, soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket...
...literally true that in four days of engaging random citizens and family relations in casual conversation, I never heard the President mentioned until I brought him up. The silence didn't seem a result of gloom, and certainly not of shame or humiliation. Billy's breakfast hangout, the Best Western Inn of Americus, did list crow on the menu of Nov. 5; but that's only consistent with the air of amused and stoic relief that greeted all my inquiries...