Word: ated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotel men in Bizerte, Dakar, Casablanca brushed up their German, grinned with short-sighted satisfaction as their rooms filled up with men who paid their bills, made no complaints, ate early breakfasts and disappeared...
...made in insisting on maintaining the 5-5-3 ratio in 1934. Referring to a dinner in London, he says: "I was never told there that being much shorter than the others I ought to eat only three-fifths of the food on my plate. I ate as much as I needed...
...Mexico's long Pacific arm which used to be called the Sea of Cortez. They wanted to find out all they could about the sea creatures, especially the teeming invertebrates along the shores-how they changed in numbers, size, form from place to place, how they lived, loved, ate, fought, fled, hid, died...
...fancy Latin names. Although they were not looking for rarities, about 10% of their 550 species proved to be new. They were stung by urchins, morays, anemones, stingrays and stinging worms. Their hands, cut by barnacles, became first a welter of sores and then horny-callused. They caught and ate tuna, skipjack and sierra, tried unsuccessfully to eat a turtle; they drank beer and whiskey; they bathed by jumping over the side; they had a wonderful time...
Pioneers on Puget Sound ate so many clams "their stomachs rose and fell with the tides." They were great individualists. There was Hazard Stevens, son of the first Governor. At twelve he left home to make a treaty with the Gros Ventre Indians. He was the first white man to climb Mount Rainier...