Word: riser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...became literally one of the sights of the capital. The people of Washington-and the visitors-could see their President several times a day as he walked across Pennsylvania Avenue from Blair House to the White House. He also continued his prebreakfast constitutionals. Many an early riser in Washington was pleased and astonished to see the President smiling or waving at him. A motorist almost ran him down; Harry Truman skipped lightly...
...been down with flu. Sir Stafford Cripps (Trade) had been out with a chill. Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was nursing his high blood pressure. At a cocktail party a friend told him that he looked well. Said Bevin: "I feel worse than I look." Clem Attlee, an early riser, toiled to the Churchillian hour of 2:30 a.m. to handle the extra work...
...early riser, he generally went to breakfast alone. But he knew not the way to the Union and the building where he went to eat was in reality the Faculty Club. For four consecutive mornings he ate, unknowingly, among the pundits until a compatriot went along with him ont day and pointed out his error...
...White House he upset the whole routine. An inordinately early riser (by the standards of White House reporters), he was at his desk at 8:30, began his day's appointments promptly at 9:30. No matter how crowded the list (one day he had 18 appointments), he kept the schedule running on time, a feat which loquacious Franklin Roosevelt had seldom been able...
Despite these activities, the Senator is still an early riser, getting to his office at 8, whisking swiftly through documents and mail before the committee hearings begin at 10. In the Senate club, he is, by & large, a lone wolf. He is living proof that a man can be a successful politician and public servant without being a backslapper. He has his dignity. He is not athletic, likes starchy foods, smokes a box of Sano (denicotinized) cigars a week, and has almost no hobbies...