Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...García-Godoy, had been told that the loyalists would consider the trip a provocation. He insisted, took off in a convoy of 31 cars. In Santiago, the group swaggered around town, waving their guns, disarming cops and bullying civilians. After the memorial service, they went on to breakfast at Santiago's Hotel Matum, a small two-story hilltop hideaway three miles from the loyalist-occupied Santiago air base...
...firearms and were getting ready to defend the Outer Gate by flinging flagstones down on the police. Harvard and Princeton experienced numerous such episodes. In 1788 the situation at Harvard was so bad that Professor Eliphalet Pearson kept what he called a Journal of Disorders. "In the hall at breakfast this morning," he recorded on Dec. 9, "bisket, tea cups, saucers & a knife thrown at tutors. At evening prayers the lights were all extinguished by powder and lead." A partial list of college casualties during this period includes one undergraduate dead in a duel at South Carolina College and another...
...breakfast time on a jungle road in Viet Nam last week, Dwight Owen killed a Communist and saw dozens of Americans die. On patrol with a 1st Infantry Division search-and-destroy unit in the Iron Triangle 35 miles northwest of Saigon, the gangling (6 ft. 4½ in.) 19-year-old was walking down a path munching his B rations when a Viet Cong .50-cal. machine gun opened fire. Then, from all four sides and above, more machine guns, grenade launchers and snipers' rifles poured lead into the detachment, felling two G.I.s instantly. From a thicket where...
...tender age survived the Russian Revolution, does not claim any military history-except what he records at the end of his brush. He found General Johnson a most engaging subject, but was dismayed by the fact that the general scheduled the sittings for 7:30 a.m. Mrs. Johnson had breakfast ready but, sighed Boris, who is essentially a night person, "I'm not hungry that early...
...pretend to 'know' Dr. Robert Coles. I can not deliver him for breakfast-table enjoyment in a neat package decorated with quotable metaphors. But I like him a great deal, and know that what he does, and writes, and thinks about, is highly connected with what most of us are becoming concerned with in our own work and in our own lives...