Word: breakfasting
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...burning. It is in Galilee that the rockets fired by Hizballah militants in Lebanon typically fall, occasionally scoring a direct hit on someone vulnerable, more often forcing inhabitants to move into bomb shelters. In the escarpment hamlet of Shomera, Israelis like Gabriel Peretz, the owner of a bed-and-breakfast, can do little more than brace for the next attack. "The situation is very bad," he says, his sentences punctuated by the sound of Israeli artillery fire, a crack-boom followed by a lingering zing of the outgoing shell, as loudspeakers in the village instruct residents to take cover...
...perhaps a bit of dietary recklessness isn’t such a terrible thing. While Americans count calories, Poles eat for pleasure, often five times a day. As far as I know, only Poles would ever say “first breakfast” and “second breakfast.”Of course we’re supposed to eat a balanced diet, watch our saturated fat intake, our sugar intake, and plenty of other intakes I don’t know enough about to name. Poles, on the other hand, see balance in terms of possibilities...
...miles away, in the escarpment village of Shomela, Gabriel Peretz, the owner-with his wife, Ada-of a bed and breakfast bemoaned the latest violence. "The situation is very bad," he said from his garden. Israeli artillery fire and its crack-boom followed by a lingering zing of the outgoing shell punctuated his sentences. "We've had six years of peace, but everything has come back to us. All the fear and the bad economics." As Peretz spoke, loudspeakers in the village called for residents to get into hardened shelters immediately. He and Ada ignored them...
...breaks ceilings at breakfast...
...undergraduate years, he would wake at six to go to Albiani’s Cafeteria in Harvard Square, where he would drink black coffee and write until it was time to go back to Eliot for breakfast...