Word: ated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helped directly speed national efforts. Just consider the effect of teams bringing Blacks down to spring training. For Robinson's Dodgers, according to Tygiel, the tours through the South "challenged deeply entrenched Jim Crow traditions"--from the segregation on the trains players traveled in, the restaurants in which they ate, or the hotels where they slept. "We were paying our dues long before the civil rights marches," the great Dodger pitcher Don Newcombe told Tygiel proudly. "Martin Luther King told me, in my home one night. 'You'll never know what you and Jackie and Roy [Campanile] did to make...
...Agriculture Secretary John Block and family ate on a "food stamp budget" for one week. We are supposed to be impressed. I have never lived on food stamps, but I have seen the struggles of friends who have. How would you like it, Mr. Block, if your infant went hungry because the milk soured and the food stamps weren't due to come for two more days...
Tower, 57, rose from obscurity as a political science professor to win the Sen ate seat vacated in 1961 when Lyndon Johnson became Vice President. He is known in the Senate for his acerbic wit, keen mind and temper- and his ardent advocacy of military spending...
...aides and reporters, he and his wife pushed a cart through their local supermarket picking up provisions recommended by nutritional experts. The millionaire farmer reported that there were only a few minor hitches in living on this allotment for a week: "The family crisis was when the dog ate the biscuits. But that could happen to any family, rich or poor." Critics countered that tighter eligibility rules instituted by Block mean that the average family of four on food stamps receives only $39 a week, rather than the maximum figure used by Block. The Administration has proposed cutting the funding...
About four centuries after Shakespeare wrote, "Eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath," Mose Coleman harvested the first Vidalia onion, ate it and found, among other things, that his breath would not fell a mule. That was in 1931, and Coleman, who is now 82, took his onion to a buyer for a food-store chain. "I pulled out my onion and my knife," he recalls, "and I ate it there in front of him. He'd never seen anything like it. There wasn't any tears coming out of my eyes...