Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Greek could meet Greek in the Olympic games, athletes were faddish about food. At one stage, the training-table diet for athletes was fresh cheese at all meals - and nothing else except water. Then things swung the other way: Milo of Crotona, the greatest wrestler of ancient times, ate an entire ox at a single sitting...
...Then, on another occasion, on July 4, 1850, a sad event took place. President Zachary Taylor came out here to a celebration such as this, and he delivered the oration of the day. Then, it being hot as it is now, he ate cherries and fruit, and drank a lot of water, and he went back to the White House and on July 9, he was dead. Let's hope that nothing of that sort happens here today...
Supercrooks. In Yarmouth, England, four boys confessed with a touch of braggadocio what they had done with the 64 bricks of ice cream they had stolen the night before: they ate them...
First Ballot. He was up early for his big day, ate some bacon & eggs and began seeing the people who were already streaming up to the eighth floor. Charlie Halleck dropped by to see Herb Brownell. News came that Senator Leverett Saltonstall was releasing the Massachusetts votes which he controlled...
...night of his death, George Polk ate a hearty lobster dinner, perhaps in a waterfront café on dirty Niki Street. A short time later, Polk was shot point-blank from behind with a long-barreled gun, then tied up with 30 feet of rope. Probable scene of the crime: one of the countless coastwise vessels with which the harbor swarms. (To shoot Polk first and then drag his bleeding, trussed body through Salonika's streets could hardly have escaped notice; to lure him to a caique, and then shoot him in a below-deck cabin, would have been...