Word: breakfasting
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That community spirit is doubtless enhanced by U.S.A.'s democratic system of grading each crew in one of only three categories: Superior, Outstanding and Excellent. Nevertheless, the competition remains furious. Before breakfast and after nightfall, in spare classrooms, around parking lots, on tiny patches of grass, the squads work tirelessly on their slinking and slithering and over-the-shoulder glances. "Smile!" bark the captains, and smiles light up every single young face...
...chain on the door. "I didn't know where to go, but finally I went to Vada's room and he let me stay over. I remember it like yesterday because the next morning was the first time in my life I ever had room service. Vada bought breakfast. It was $12.75." His store of figures charms most people but bothers a few. On the last day of Rose's rookie season, Stan Musial scratched a single to each side of him and retired with 3,630 hits, the highest total in the 88-year history of the National League...
...into town to join thousands of traditionalists and tourists for the centerpiece of the festivities: a dawn recital by the Magdalen Boy's Choir, given from the top of the spire of Magadalen College Chapel. Crowds gather below from about 5 a.m. and afterwards disperse for college parties or breakfast at one of the nearby pubs, which are full to bursting by sun-up. The only venues that aren't crowded on May 1 are the libraries and lecture halls...
...Beverly and I shared a bunkhouse with one other couple and a fella from the University of Nebraska, a guy named Jorgensen, who would eat only Chinese food. He elected himself cook. We ate Chinese food three times a day, Chinese oatmeal for breakfast. He cooked on a hot plate and slept in the hall, while the two couples had one small bedroom each. But it worked great. I loved the place. Easterners had a time getting used to all this primitive discomfort, but I was in hog heaven. It was also a completely democratic society. Oppie saw to that...
...available. Four--and this may be the biggest factor--the President of the U.S. must have credibility. Korea fit in all respects. But the main thing was that the Russians did not want to mess with Eisenhower. Lyndon Johnson made this point rather sadly once when I had breakfast with him in 1969. He was talking about the bad advice he got about halting the bombing in Viet Nam. He said that Averell Harriman came to him at least twelve times, and said that if we'd stop the bombing, the Russians would use their influence to restrain the North...