Word: ate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World turned out to be the cold-water tenements, sweatshops and street stalls near the station. The photographs of those women -- staggering under bundles of piecework balanced on their heads, bent over sewing machines, huddled with their children in the dank rooms where entire families worked, slept, ate and died -- have become images for the way many Americans think about women immigrants of that period. Brave, dogged, desperate. And heroines...
...room. It goes against human nature. Strangers are not supposed to set up civilizations together. A nation must arise out of a tribe, out of affinities of blood. At one time, if some Pacific island tribesmen encountered a man they had not seen before, they simply killed -- and sometimes ate -- him. Tribal policy. But the U.S., with its great polyglot ingathering, went brilliantly to the other extreme...
...During my two years in Washington, Volcker visited the White House only three times," says Feldstein, who ate breakfast with Volcker every other week before he left the Administration...
...direct link between the amount of fish in the diet and the rate of death from heart disease. Investigators monitored the eating habits of 852 middle-aged Dutchmen for 20 years and found that the incidence of fatal heart disease was more than 50% lower among men who regularly ate fish than those who ate no fish at all--despite the fact that the fish eaters consumed somewhat more cholesterol and more meat than non-fish eaters...
...princess gets high marks for hard work and folksiness. "She is not the least bit conceited. She behaves very naturally, she ate what we ate," reports Marina Fausti, fashion editor of Moda. "She was very nice with everybody," says Gilles Tapie, who has done the best Stephanie photos so far. He caught a nice kind of regal raunch for a cover and bathing-suit layout in Elle, and reflects, "She's short for a model, and she's not a beautiful girl. She's muscled in the arms . . . She could be a boy with her short hair. But when...