Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threw a rock and it bounced off'n him like rubber," said Orville. "If somebody gets ate up I reckon you'll believe it." But a few days later the Johnson children were ordered back to school, this time by a skeptical county judge...
...afternoons the Governor, his wife and two sons swam in the Atlantic surf and sunned on the deck beside the Casino swimming pool. When it was time for a change, they put on sports clothes and ate dinner in the big, patio-styled Cloister. They retired early to their $40-a-day suite, to be ready in the morning for traditional Southern breakfasts-ham & eggs, grits, hot biscuits-and another day's relaxation. While the Governor golfed, his wife usually went for walks; son John, 8, learned to ride a bicycle on the alabaster-white beach, harassed...
...striking to the eye . . '. the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible ... he often had convulsive starts and odd gesticulations, " sometimes "rolled himself about in a strange, ridiculous manner." He wore tattered wigs and filthy shirts ("I have no love for cleanliness"), let his stockings droop around his ankles, ate so gluttingly that his veins protruded and he sweated violently. He could drink 25 cups of tea at a sitting, often gobbled eight peaches as a breakfast appetizer. He swilled his favorite medicine: "Dr. James's Powder for Fevers and Other Inflammatory Distempers." "I mind my belly very studiously," said...
...admirals and the clergy arrived at 11. The others dined, played bridge, arrived at midnight. Supper was served before 1:00 for the elderly, who took a glass of champagne, a cup of bouillon, a roll, and their departure. The youngsters danced till daybreak, ate breakfast of ham & eggs, and hurried to Bailey's Beach for a swim...
What the Allies now needed was a capacious, intact, nearby port-to wit, Antwerp (see above). Shortages of almost everything from ammunition to cigarets and field kitchens had popped up and were still popping up all along the front. Cursing doughfoots ate cold rations, got along on ten cigarets a day. At one point the Third Army fired captured shells from captured 88s. The First Army served their own 155s with ammunition which had been captured from the French by the Germans in 1940, retaken from the Germans...