Word: riser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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China region (wealthy, industrial Manchuria), the only civilian regional boss, member of the Politburo and since January director of China's lagging Five-Year Plan. A fast riser, he is now considered to be riding for a fall...
Leverett has managed to retain an air of pre-War leisure greatly reminiscent of the English colleges on which the Houses were patterned. At Leverett, for example, the unhurried riser can still get a complete breakfast as late as 9:30 a.m. on weekdays, and 10 a.m. Sundays. Most other Houses close a full half-hour earlier...
Despite the glitter of her trappings, Evita leads an almost austere life. She and her husband live simply; they rarely go out at night except to official ceremonies. El Presidente has always been an early riser and hard worker; La Presidenta keeps the same pace. From time to time, they retire briefly to San Vicente, their country place, where Perón likes to put on gaucho's trousers and stroll among his dogs, ostriches and chickens. Evita knocks around in slacks and cooks an occasional omelette...
Half a dozen graduates of Washington's now defunct Gunston Hall school for girls got together last week to celebrate the 27th birthday of their friend and classmate Margaret Truman. The night before, Margaret had come down from Manhattan to Washington for the occasion. A late riser by preference, she roused herself for an "early" (8:40) breakfast with her father at Blair House, lunched with her mother before going off to Best Friend Jane Lingo's house to gossip, giggle and eat her favorite chocolate cake with her old school chums...
Cluttered Attic. A late riser, Frost eats a breakfast of watered milk and a raw egg flavored with lemon. Afternoons, he walks the hills or potters around the farm (he is helping his tenant farmer, Stafford Dragon, build an extra room on the main house). Last week he was spending his evenings reading Catullus (in Latin), dipping into travel books ("they keep your imagination kind of stretched wide") or writing in his slow longhand. Frost writes nearly all his poems straight through at a sitting. "A poem can't be worried into existence," he says...