Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airline. National-almost three times bigger than Texas International-was horrified. Pan American World Airways eventually outbid Lorenzo with a $300 million offer, thereby allowing Texas International to sell its National shares for a $47 million pretax profit. Last year Lorenzo went after Trans World Airlines. Over breakfast at New York City's Carlyle Hotel, he told TWA Chairman L. Edwin Smart that he wanted to buy the troubled airline, which is ten times the size of the Texas upstart. The offer was quickly rebuffed...
...gray suits, gray socks, black shoes, white shirts and Paisley ties," who invents the wave-tossed nuke while he is "standing wet, naked and soapy in his shower." This, perhaps, is inspiration of a sort, but a wet and soapy sort. Eckert came out of the shower, "ate his breakfast and told his wife, Joan, that he wanted to launch nuclear power plants as, in effect, ships on the ocean. 'There you go again,' she said...
This year, in the preseason they only scored 36 points. That's an average of nine points a game. The Pittsburgh Steelers eat nine points for breakfast...
...distracted, caught up in some other things. "I ended up changing the title to Heart Attack and Vine, and that's what I'm working on now. I'd say the sound's a little more rhythm & blues. Got a song called 'Drinkin' Whiskey in Church,' one called 'Breakfast in Jail,' another called 'Whose Sportcoat Is That?' Another, 'Pomona Lisa.' A lot of it I'm going to break in on the road...
...days later, Langston sits in the hotel restaurant eating breakfast, two pieces of whole wheat toast, and downing large swallows of coffee, truly an unknown comic. When he tries to charge the meal to his room, the waitress asks him to prove he is a hotel guest. Two tables down, some other people recognize him and wave...