Word: ated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President ate his first oysters of the season-a half-dozen Blue Points...
While the General ate his dinner, mobs shouted around the prison. Communists rioted in Bilbao. In San Sebastian, Republicans tried to lynch several Monarchists. In Barcelona, Archduke Carlos of Habsburg-Bourbon was arrested on suspicion. After a night of serene sleep General Sanjurjo set out for El Dueso Prison in Santander Province to begin a term which few Spaniards expect him to finish...
Last week King George had a dinner of fine plump red Scotch grouse shipped by express from Balmoral Castle, but many another grouse-loving Briton ate mutton or went hungry. On the morning of the Twelfth-opening date of the Scottish grouse season-a violent thunderstorm swept over the moors, leaving boggy ground and a heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled...
...before he played Henri Cochet. as he had done before playing Gottfried von Cramm. Vines was not warned about eating cucumbers before his match with Jean Borotra because even the most optimistic Frenchmen took it for granted that Vines would win this match no matter what he ate...
...time. Lesser priests put on the "Juzu" (sacred beads representing the followers of Buddha), rang gongs, burned incense, read from the scriptures on each side of the gilt altar, decorated with pink, white and green cakes and many flowers. When religious matters were disposed of, the 400 convened Buddhists ate of Japanese victuals and, like their Christian brothers in convention, romped politely...