Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back to Juarez and eventually to El Paso, where his 19-year-old father rejoined them. "My youth was all whirlwinds of sand and threatening rain." he says. The family rode a cattle car to California, where they worked m orchards picking fruit and nuts, eating walnut gruel for breakfast and sleeping under the trees at night. When Tony was nine, his father was hit by a car in Los Angeles and killed...
...breakfast-table news about air disasters is achingly familiar. A plane was taking off-or perhaps landing. Some of the passengers, to be sure, were nervous; some always are, no matter how normal conditions may seem. Then, in the merest, most explosive instant of time, came death from flame and mangled metal...
Silent Phones. Mornings in Paris, De Gaulle is awakened at 7 by his shy, grey-eyed wife Yvonne, for he will permit neither clocks nor radio in his bedroom. After a breakfast of black coffee and dry toast (croissants on Thursdays and Sundays), De Gaulle changes from striped pajamas to one of the ten double-breasted suits (navy blue, black, or charcoal grey) chosen and laid out by his valet, scans the morning papers and listens to the 8:15 news broadcast before crossing the hall to his office in the Salon Doré, also on the Elys...
...morning of his first marriage, to a model named Rosalie Texier, Debussy was so broke that he had to give a piano lesson to pay for the wedding breakfast...
...doomed to break the breakfast...