Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...budget of $9 billion, which is largely spent on nutritional and food-stamp programs. Foreman has control of drafting specifications for almost all federal food purchases, including those of the Pentagon and the Veterans Administration. She has taken steps to reduce the sugar, salt and fat content of school breakfasts and lunches; proposed a regulation that would remove Super Donuts and other fortified pastries from school breakfast programs; successfully lobbied for a law banning junk food in school vending machines; helped to persuade Congress to drop requirements that food-stamp recipients pay some cash, thereby making the stamps available...
Hetu said that Bok and Turner had made "some progress" at their breakfast meeting...
...conspicuous, may sometimes be caught glancing furtively round to make sure that he is about to use the right knife and fork." Edward FitzGerald, the reclusive translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, waved away a dubious bowl of pudding at his wedding breakfast with the exclamation, "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid!" Ireland is found "so melancholy, so full of the ghosts of feuds and famines, the clouds fly low, the trees sag under the incessant rain, and the very air seems charged and weighed down with a sense of grievance." An Alphabet of Literary Prejudice...
Justly irate feminists in Manchester picketed the Star's launch-night reception breakfast and altered some of the paper's promotional posters to read A STAR is PORN. Their protest did not prevent a sellout. Earlier, the Star had hurdled another obstacle: a demand by the Communist Morning Star for a court order barring the new paper from sowing confusion among the laboring classes by appropriating its stellar name. The judge lost no time denying the motion. Said he, quite accurately: "Only a moron in a hurry would be misled...
Blair House has heard just about every kind of talk before, some strong and some gentle. WilHam Tecumseh Sherman, the man who later marched to the sea, was married there in 1850. One day in 1861 at breakfast, Navy Captain David Glasgow Farragut ("Damn the torpedoes-full speed ahead!") was told he was to command the Union attack against New Orleans. And in a front room Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies, a melancholy prelude to many visits by the anguished Lincoln, who used to prowl the area...