Word: ate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drank the beer we had brought, and we talked and talked. The food was good, but was not the main event. Around us, the kitchens squeaked and groaned with activity. Groups of hungry eaters came and left, single men absorbed in Chinese newspapers ate their solitary dinners and departed, but we stayed...
Thursday morning, as I sat in front of the television watching NASA technicians worry the Discovery through its countdown, I ate a star for breakfast. The star was in the form of a waffle. It consisted mostly of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen, with a sprinkling of other elements. Except for the hydrogen, those atoms had been forged in a star that exploded and died long before our sun and solar system were born. The hydrogen was made in the big bang that allegedly began the universe. Some astronomers think that it was on dust grains floating in interstellar space...
After the Dubuque continued on its way to the Persian Gulf, the Vietnamese say, they became so desperate that they drowned a boy, a young woman and a man, then boiled and ate parts of their bodies. Two children who had starved were also cannibalized. Before being rescued by Filipino fishermen on June 28, the refugees lost 58 passengers to exposure, hunger or drowning. The Dubuque's commander, Captain Alexander Balian, said the refugee boat was seaworthy when he saw it, but he has been removed from command while the inquiry continues...
...Nora was her own person, and from the very beginning Maddox lets the reader know that it is her biography, not Joyce's, by dispelling many of the myths about her. She could cook, although legend had it that she couldn't, but the Joyces ate in restaurants because Joyce liked to go out a lot. She was not illiterate; although she never could get all the way through Ulysses (neither could W.B. Yeats), Nora read and memorized many of his poems...
...altogether corny menu recitation, the sparkling little supper club offers winy hot borscht, herbed rack of lamb, roasted guinea hen in a lemony olive sauce and a gently sweet banana-almond souffle. Asked why there was not more Russian food on the menu, the waiter answered, "The Czar Nikolai ate only French food." Smart...