Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Claghorn: Thanksgivin', Ah only ate the part of the turkey that's facin' south...
They asked little of life but independence, and that had a price. Through the '20s and '30s Newfoundlanders knew hard times. Their underdeveloped, underpopulated (300,000) island has never been self-sufficient. They imported much of what they ate. When world markets dried, and the full impact of depression was felt, Newfoundland went steadily downhill, hurried along by shortsighted leaders who ran her national debt from $43 million to $100 million in twelve years. In 1933 the treasury had $8 million in revenue to meet an expenditure of $11 million ($5 million in interest charges alone). Then there...
...delayed reaction from a hen's egg. Nineteen years ago a 12-year-old girl named Edna Adkins wrote her name and address on it with a pencil. The egg was sold, shipped to St. Louis, served hard boiled in a restaurant. Westerman got it, read it, ate it. Charmed, he looked up Edna, courted and married her. They had five children, the oldest of whom was a boy named Gene. Last week, because Edna had decided she liked Neighbor Ben French better than her husband, 15-year-old Gene shot Westerman through the head with a .22 rifle...
After the Army-Navy game, where onetime Artillery Captain Truman was officially neutral but personally rooting for the Army, the President took the club members on the first trip of his new yacht Williamsburg. They cruised overnight, ate wild rice and curry, came back next day under sunny skies...
Over four crowded wires from the Sen ate Office Building, Western Union punched 25,000 words a day; the press as sociations (A.P., U.P., I.N.S.) filed six to eight thousand apiece. How many words poured into the radio microphones, no body stopped to count. Pearl Harbor was the biggest running congressional story since the 1933 Pecora banking investiga tion...