Word: ate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...snow stopped before dawn, and still only Jim knew what was wrong down at the dealership. The old bell in the church belfry rang soon after light, just as Lyle took his muffins out of the Garland gas stove and served the engineer, who ate and ran, maddeningly, without divulging the reason for his stay. In a town short on stimulant, such intelligence could have been dear...
...spent most of Rosh Hashanah hanging out in the Sports Cube, ate junk food on Yom Kippur, but you can be sure I was appropriately reverent when Guy Lafleur came over the boards and left a spray of snow as he dashed toward the Detroit Red Wings...
...mutual isolation. Some members of the United Church of Christ, for example, invited the Soviets to send a group of visitors on a tour of New England. Last April came a newspaper editor, a Russian Orthodox bishop, a scientist and six others, who stayed in rural homes and ate pot-luck dinners. "It was the first time many of these people had ever done anything like this," says Elizabeth Gardner, who helped organize the tour and whose husband Clint was finishing an exchange visit to the Soviet Union in December. "It proved to a lot of people that the Soviets...
Elitist snickering rose to poisonous levels in Washington when Dwight Ei senhower painted by the numbers, read westerns, ate on a TV tray and fished for trout in a stocked stream. What could you expect from a soldier who ranked 61st in a West Point class of 164? How we miss him. He did not panic every time the Soviets threatened. He foresaw the hideous nuclear dilemma we face today. He brought people together...
...global epidemic, even the destruction of eggs by small mammals. Colbert, skeptical of all the theories, is especially critical of the latest and most popular explanation: the earth, struck by a giant asteroid, kicked up a huge volume of dust, reducing sunlight and killing off the plants that dinosaurs ate. Colbert points out that new finds in Montana show that the animals were dying well before the asteroid hit. Says he: "We probably shall never know why these fabulous reptiles, so long the masters of the continents, should have disappeared completely from the earth." It is the only really pessimistic...