Word: ate
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What age and experience have failed to feed this nation in the past 20 years has finally been served on a platter by its youth at the Winter Olympics [March 3]. How hungry we'd become! And so for two weeks in February 1980 we ate it all up. God, it feels good to be full...
What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imaginations? Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger...
...life to prepare this scholarly work. Hancock's official record at Harvard, stored in the basement of Houghton Library, shed some light on his character. Although he entered Harvard at the precocious age of 13, he was an undistinguished student. He complained about the "rotten" food and usually ate at local alehouses, where he picked up a taste for rum. Fowler includes in the text some of the drinking songs Hancock composed while at school...
Congratulations for the Essay "Back to Reticence" [Feb. 4]! It admirably depicts my feelings since my arrival in this country. I recently had the dubious privilege at one of the Yale dining halls of sitting next to a law student who ate with his hat on and used a chicken bone as a toothpick. In many countries, such behavior would automatically render a person ineligible for any qualified position. How can you bear...
...game neared the three-quarter mark, Columbia had moved to its biggest lead of the half, 63-58, and had moved into a modified stall which ate up nearly two minutes...