Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hall of First Ladies on the ground level of the White House, and Reagan seems aware that he is exactly five minutes behind schedule. He leaves the elevator that has brought him from breakfast with his wife in the family quarters, bids a smiling "Hi, hi" to Secret Service agents and strides so quickly down the red carpet that the entourage must scurry to keep up. Reagan is not a morning person. He wakens at an unpresidential 7:30 or 7:45 (vs. 6 a.m. for Jimmy Carter). Today's 8 o'clock call from the White House...
...awakened late the next morning by a guard, who had no idea of what had happened to me that night, summoning me to breakfast. I still could not speak. I finally got one word out: "Toilet." Holding the wall, I slowly made my way to where he indicated...
...morning last spring, a poster on my door said "Do you know that someone you care about is gay?" As I walked to breakfast, I ran my mind over people I cared about. Concluding positively that not one was gay. I dismissed the sign as propaganda for the coming Gay/Lesbian Awareness Day (GLAD...
...consumer advocacy column, many with follow-up services where the paper calls up the offenders and publishes the results along with the original grievance letter. The Philadelphia Bulletin's "Mr. Fixit" column has been intimidating businesses and inspiring readers for years, and makes for some interesting, if occasionally bizarre, breakfast table reading...
...people who run Harvard University. It's hard for anyone to make himself think like the people he's attacking. It's much easier to satirize or criticize an institution where the dining hall employees are under strict instructions not to serve you bacon with your waffles at breakfast, because the manager told them the bacon only goes with the eggs (one platter) while the waffles (the other platter), on the other hand, are not supposed to be served with bacon. Cuts down on food waste, they'll tell...