Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trees and plants and flowers. At 5 o'clock, as dusk settled over the low Catskills, the five visitors, the President, his mother, Mr. Summerlin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt III, 2, gathered for tea and cocktails. Minute, rompered Franklin Roosevelt III sat on a hassock and ate a cookie like a good boy. His great-grandmother said sadly: "His name is Franklin Delano Roosevelt the Third, but everybody calls him Joe." Joe acted like a little gentleman until his nurse came to take him away. Then he kicked like hell...
...Presented the Army & Navy Legion of Valor's annual medal to 14-year-old Donn Fendler of Rye, N. Y. Boy Scout Fendler, who had his hair slicked for the occasion, ate berries and kept his head while lost in the Maine woods for seven days in July...
...North China, Roy Chapman Andrews ate locusts cooked in sugar, found them "good, crisp and sweet...
...50th-anniversary feelings, rocked to its foundations. Even the Negro elevator operator felt that his name had been scandalized. Not since Critic Paul Rosenfeld made some vulgar reference to God giving a "positively farewell" recital on the trombone had anything so irreverent been seen in print. Herald Tribune readers ate...
...people had no money. All they owned was fishing equipment. All they ate was cod, bread, tea, wild berries. They were plagued with tuberculosis, scurvy, anemia, beriberi. They had never seen a doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them of ophthalmia, haddock fin bones to ward off rheumatism, burned nail parings to drive away sea boils. A scratch with a fish hook often meant infection and the loss of a limb...