Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That night the turnkey opened the peephole and offered me half a cup of water and a piece of bread-my first food or water since breakfast on Monday. Then back to more interrogation, which continued for a couple of hours. After that, I was dumped on the floor of my cell. I was still in my shorts, with no blanket, bed or pillows, just the bare concrete. I fell into an exhausted sleep, and was allowed to rest through the night...
...sort of a fact it is. When Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," the reader is going to know it was in a boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered his coronary thrombosis, Manchester, you can bet, knew what he had for breakfast: "beef bacon, pork sausages, fried mush, and flapjacks." Statistics tumble on the reader's head like the rich chaos from Fibber McGee's closet. Who else would know that the average height of American women increased ½ in. between 1945 and 1954 (from...
...campaign has picked up in the last few days, but the recent surge of support has probably come too late. "I think I can win," Sargent said at a recent press breakfast. " No, I have no new polls, but I just came from an MBTA station and I have the sense that the people are with...
Ford went first to a $500-a-plate Republican breakfast, where only 51 tickets had been sold. That night in Cleveland, his tepid audience at a $500-a-plate dinner totaled about 250, half what had been expected. Among the missing was Republican Gubernatorial Candidate James Rhodes, who opposes Ford's proposed surtax...
...White House-press honeymoon distressing; reporters, he said, should be more like a nagging collective mother-in-law than an affectionate spouse. Then Columnist George Will challenged the "English muffin theory of history"-a gibe at the overly generous play given Gerald Ford's staged self-service breakfast. Now the Los Angeles Times, with less humor but far more depth, has examined coverage of Ford and also found it wanting...