Word: ated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after the 1937 strike was settled, Charley changed. To the Embarcadero's profane amazement, he became a follower of Father Divine. He ate a chicken dinner, got his soul shampooed and his past washed away, and was reborn as Brother True Knowledge. His wife was reborn, too. She was christened True Obedience and became his sister. When they moved into Father Divine's "Peace Mission" in the Negro section of Oakland, he slept in the men's dormitory, and True Obedience in the women's quarters upstairs...
Taciturn John Red hired no help. He slept in the stable, tended all the horses himself (which in a fashionable stable would busy five men). His equipment was primitive: because he lacked screw-eyes to hold up feed tubs, the horses ate off the floor. John rubbed all eight horses, galloped them, even shoed them. Last week, when Sunshine Park ended its 50-day meeting after going $100,000 in the red, John Red ordered another boxcar. This time he had some cash in his pants. His catch-as-catch-can stable had won eight races...
...normal after the war. He could hardly escape the fact of the atomic bomb, but he thought he could forget it for a while. The national debt was big, but it wouldn't explode; and the Russians, though annoying, would be busy rebuilding Minsk. He ordered an automobile, ate a steak, and waited irascibly for Better Conditions. But last week, as spring grudgingly began to warm the continent, he had reached a reluctant conclusion: things were probably as normal as they were ever going to get and he was still living in the same old world...
...Winnipeg Tribune stood this as long as it could, then wondered out loud where Richards and Kardash were getting their ideas. "Maybe," said the Tribune, "it's something they ate-probably caviar...
...usual. On his last day he went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological wonders of Teotihuacan, ate lunch in a flower-walled tent, and marveled at the ancient Temple of Quetzalcoatl...