Word: oatmealization
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Last week Britons were considering another Summerskill attack on the British breakfast which might be less easily condoned. Oatmeal, she seemed to be saying, in flat contradiction of Charles Lamb and Dr. Johnson, was not only a substitute for the provocative pig, but an improvement...
...realist with a varnished style that switches from arty to operatic to documentary. His highway scenes give a sense of speeding movement and the ominous effect on the driver of cars hurtling past in a metallic rhythm. Occasionally he turns in a totally authentic shot, e.g., an oatmeal-grey Sunday morning in the produce market, the street forlorn and empty except for some work-worn truckers sitting on crates eating watermelon...
...week's end, 32-year-old Paul Coates had gained five pounds. He had sampled Scotch haggis (oatmeal and suet pudding), frankfurters & sauerkraut, spareribs, and potato latkes (pancakes), still had some 250 meals to go. A thoughtful reader had sent him a tin of baking soda, but Coates was no quitter. Gritted he: "I'll follow through...
...people," said Niall McPherson of Dumfries, "are accustomed to their oatmeal, and they must have it." But the pleas were in vain. Like a stiftnecked English nanny who knows what's best, the Parliament sustained the oatmeal ration...
There were other questions, beyond oatmeal, to bother the Scottish M.P.s last week. "Is the President of the Board of Trade aware," asked Hector Hughes, "that in the city of Aberdeen there is a shortage of outsize nether garments, for men and boys over six feet in height...