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Word: ated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Figs & Frogs. But by the time the armistice sent Innocenzo home again (and cut off the allotment), the neglected farm yielded only enough for his wife and the children. They ate figs, chicory weeds, green apples, and frogs caught in the ditches. For the first time in his life, the peasant Innocenzo Pietropaoli went begging. In the fall he got a job as a harvester on another man's farm. His wife walked behind him, gleaning stray ears of wheat (eleven pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Quiet | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Chinese newspapers had reported that the famished Hunanese also ate mud and clay. We asked the interpreter if this were really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Quiet | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...ironic inhumanity of all this is that there is still food in Hunan. Scores of beggar children wander with chopsticks and empty rice bowls through Hengyang or lie exhausted in the gutters, but the city's restaurants still serve ten-course feasts for those who can pay. We ate such a meal one night as guests of the local newspapermen, whose slightly fantastic prelude to the banquet was the presentation of carefully wrapped samples of the clay, weeds, rice husks and grass on which people were starving not far from our table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Quiet | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

That Ain't Hay. In Lindsay, Ont., Elmer Jewell was found guilty of starving his livestock. Evidence: a calf ate a horse's tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...restaurant business was something new for Sheraton. But new things were the stock in trade of Sheraton Corp.'s two smart bosses: President Ernest Henderson, 49, and Vice President & Treasurer Robert Lowell Moore, 50, partners since they were roommates at Harvard (and ate at the Washington Thompson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: A Giant -- & Still Growing | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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