Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Breakfast. The Hueys swept back in to haul the troopers out, but were kept off by the intense Red fire. So instead, a full company of Flying Horsemen was helilifted in. Skyraiders and Hueys covered the Horsemen from the air, a battery of the Air Cav's 105-mm. howitzers was lifted into range to provide an all-night barrage, and another Air Cav company dropped in for breakfast with the defenders. That was enough for the enemy, who hastily retreated across the Cambodian border, leaving 158 dead...
...more pianos and cottage organs than bathtubs. Mickey Mantle's testimonial versatility pales beside that of Henry Ward Beecher, the preacher, who in the 19th century endorsed numerous products, including soap, sewing machines and trusses. Once, nice girls wore black silk mittens to breakfast, and gentlemen kept their hats on indoors. And, in polite company, gentlemen referred to chickens as boy-birds and girl-birds, and never used the word peacock...
Americans no longer live in a McGuffey world. The patterns of patience and impatience are apt to be paradoxical. A businessman may want to rush to California in five hours and yet wait patiently for a delayed jet takeoff. A scientist may bolt instant coffee at a hurried breakfast and then spend a day of slow, painstaking research in his laboratory. Americans love speed and power on the highway, but they are the most disciplined drivers in the world. While the French, Italian or German driver burns out his batteries with his horn and uses his car as an instrument...
Next season Merrick intends to give theatergoers plenty to think about: 1) a new play by Peter Weiss (Marat/Sade); 2) a musical based on Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, written and directed by Abe Burrows; 3) a musical based on The Fourposter starring Mary Martin and directed by Gower Champion; 4) a new comedy by Bill Manhoff (The Owl and the Pussycat): 5) a new play by Brian Friel (Philadelphia, Here I Come!); 6) Hugh Wheeler's dramatization of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle; 7) a play by Cartoonist Mell Lazarus...
...unless a dorm opts for sit-down meals. Two dormitories, Eliot Hall and Bertman Hall, will have their kitchens closed completely. A portable meal server will be installed in each dining room, along with coffee and beverage machines. Dining rook hours will be extended to include two hours for breakfast and dinner, in addition to the present two hour lunch...