Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the Duke of York's beaten 6,000 who got back to England were ridiculed, Wellington made his first speech in two years: "They were not objects of contempt to the enemies of their country." In his camps in India he read constantly, kept on the move, ate frugally, drank little.* His officers, up at 4:30, drank a cup of tea before daylight, breakfasted in their overcoats on a table before Wellington's tent, and then set out on the day's march, the Duke riding on the dusty flank...
...Zealand, which has the world's fourth highest radio density (one for every 4.6 people) ate the parliamentary broadcasts up. Farmers fought their wives over the question of where to put the radio: dairy, barn or kitchen. Prime Minister Savage's pear-shaped tone and forthright manner quickly made him their favorite broadcaster. Conservatives have yet to produce his peer...
...morning ragged soldiers, shuffling aimlessly homeward, queued up wherever Allied operations might offer a day's work and a square meal. Fighting was out of the question for most. In Sorrento and in other picture-book resorts tucked away around the Bay of Naples, wealthy, well-dressed Fascists ate and drank abundantly of black-market goodies, frowned at rambling U.S. and British officers seeking respite from battle...
...blue. It was Dec. 7, 1941. The war was not going too well. Mrs. Churchill was in bed with a bad cold. The Prime Minister's mood communicated itself to his guests in the panelled dining hall at Chequers, country residence of Britain's Prime Ministers. They ate quietly, spoke softly and seldom. U.S. Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman was there, as was Commander C. R. Thompson, Mr. Churchill's personal aide, and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...
...possibilities. Lanky Dr. Link made his surveys, waited over the winter, after the ice left set out on Great Slave Lake with a motorboat, two scows overloaded with supplies, drill crews and an ox named "Nig." Eventually, after the ox had hauled the rig into position, the drillers ate...