Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes this seemingly innocent attitude can backfire. One foos fanatic talks about the first time: "I guess it was about a year ago--it was the Friday before spring break. Three friends and I were bored and started playing at 1:30. We played until breakfast." The expert adds, "At first I didn't think anything of it. It was a way to waste...
...Canadians, all members of Canada's Business Council on National Issues, cheerfully faced up to 14-hour days that began with breakfast meetings and ended with after-dinner speeches. With them were TIME editors, correspondents and company officers, led by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, Board Chairman Ralph Davidson and TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave. The topics ranged from acid rain to Star Wars, but it was the U.S. budget deficit and its effect on interest rates and the dollar that dominated the discussions. Most Administration officials and Congressmen agreed with Senator Dole, who described his effort...
William Peacock had just finished a breakfast of Chinese beef and noodles when he felt the plane "shudder, like we were going into a mild stall." His first instinct was to return to his seat just ten feet away, but even that proved a chore. "The aircraft had started to turn a very hard left, and there was this incredible horizontal pressure pushing my entire body to the right." China Airlines Flight 006 from Taipei to Los Angeles, with 243 passengers and 25 crew members aboard, was going down. "Dishes crashed against the walls and floor," Peacock recounted. "The baggage...
...interior and exterior, enveloped the men of Mamou on the morning of the great ride. Breakfast was beer and boudin (pronounced boo-dan, a muscular local sausage of rice, pork and pork liver that can quickly become an addiction). The mounted Cajun corps made it half a mile down the road before it had to find a field to relieve itself...
...image on Wheaties cereal boxes inspired a generation of '50s youngsters to eat the "breakfast of champions," and despite the intervening years, Bob Richards is still inspiring. A onetime minister, he earns his living on the motivational lecture circuit (and last year ran for President on the Populist Party ticket). Now the only man ever to take the Olympic pole-vaulting gold twice (1952, 1956) is back on the track in Waco, Texas, preparing for the World Veteran Games in Rome later this year. "I'm training like I've never trained before," says Richards, who turned 59 last week...