Word: breakfasting
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...eight stories has nothing at all to do with the South. Subtitled "An Idea for Film," Power and Light jumps and pans and crosscuts its way around Seattle. Hardworking women come intermittently into focus. Polly Buck, for example, labors at the City Lights Powerhouse: "This girl is chaining your breakfast together, citizen. She is hitching the light up for your asinine patio party, your old starlight teevee movies, your electric toothbrush, vibrator, Magic Fingers." Maureen, a black woman who supports her heroin-addicted brother, operates a shipyard crane. She, Polly and three or four other sisters in honest toil...
...have done by totally abstaining from sex. Her dedication to young Franklin was of an intensity bordering on the morbid. She kept him in girlish skirts and long blond curls until he was nearly six. Every hour of his day followed a strict schedule: up at 7, breakfast at 8, lessons from 9 to noon...
...another thing I got is the original strike orders [for the bombing], which are rather impressive. They were posted on the bulletin board in Tinian, telling us what planes to use, and when to go to breakfast, and when you take off. And the thing that gets me: you read all the way down--so many gallons of gasoline, and so on--until you get to 'Bomb: Special.' Just said 'Special.' Course, the IRS says that's worthless too. What's a country...
...good breakfast starts a good day; a great week kicks off a great four years. Currently, the Calendar of Opening Days, as freshman week is formally called, is designed to get the formalities out of the way and to encourage interaction between freshmen. But freshman week is not quite sufficient in helping freshmen to jump-start their Harvard careers. As Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 takes over as Dean of Freshmen this fall, we commend the College and the Freshman Orientation Advisory Committee (FOAC) for reexamining freshman week, and we offer...
Recounting a breakfast conversation between Perowne and his blues-musician son Theo, McEwan writes...