Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train-warm, well lighted, well stocked-which they owed to Kathy. Originally their Russian hosts had planned the outing in automobiles, with each man taking his own food for three days, but they had rolled out the special when Miss Harriman asked to come along. The party played cards, ate with their official hosts in the cheery dining car, slept in soft berths as the wagons-lits swayed leisurely westward. In the morning they were in Smolensk, a ruined monument to the German occupation, and the scene of a great outrage which had become a sharp world political issue...
...drama? Have you ever felt cold in a heat wave or warm during a snowstorm? Have you ever walked in your sleep and found no explanation for doing so, since you went to bed on an empty stomach and it couldn't have been the perk chops you ate in the Square last Tuesday...
Some of our correspondents ate Christmas dinner in style. Steve Laird was invited to a castle outside London where he "drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert...
...scratched their heads. Cats were imported, but large-winged boobies routed the cats. Dr. James Chapin, associate curator of the American Museum of Natural History, made a special trip. His uncomplicated solution was to destroy their eggs until the birds gave up, nested elsewhere. Last week ATC personnel ate eggs, walked on eggs, had the situation at Wideawake "fairly well" in hand...
...British, who got the program by transcription after its initial broadcast over the NBC network, ate it up. They also liked An Englishman Looks at San Francisco ("All that Britain means to the war in Europe, San Francisco means to the war out there in the Pacific") -especially the gag about how fast Henry Kaiser's shipyards build ships...