Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grand Lac de l'Epaule. They ate the proudest concoctions of three chefs, a head baker and a head pastry cook...
...Germans had halted their long retreat at the rocky hilltop town of Troina. Used to driving the enemy out of one position after another, Major General Terry Allen's 1st Division sent one combat team against the town. The Germans ate it up with machine-gun fire and drove it back. Reserves were thrown in; for the first time in Sicily, the whole 1st Division was engaged at once. Every night the Americans advanced, every morning the Germans counterattacked, driving the Americans back down the slopes before Troina. On the evening of the fifth day A.P.'s Donald...
Only fly in the ointment: some middle-aged women and fat little boys & girls with big appetites ate incorrigibly even after taking dextroamphetamine...
...Animal Kingdom. In San Francisco, Lief Croch tried to rid his apartment of mice by setting out crackers, spreading poison on every third one. The mice ate all the unpoisoned crackers, left all the others. Lief gathered them up despondently, fell to munching, soon went to the hospital. In New Britain, Conn., Eleanor Borg went up a tree after a stranded kitten, which presently scurried down by itself. It required firemen with ladders to get Eleanor down...
...anxious (e.g., worry about his stepdaughter's illness and death), he had diarrhea and no appetite, and he was wakened in the night by acid juices escaping from his stomach. Though Tom did not want food when he was worried, the doctors found that, if he ate, his digestion rate was faster than normal. Hence they conclude that not the stomach, but the emotions determine appetite. They write: "What is known about the length of time food remains in the stomach must be re-evaluated in the light of the profound alterations which accompany altered emotional states...