Word: ated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without doubt, you've heard a sickening amount about the newest music craze in America, grunge metal. Unless, of course, you're one of the invisible legions of pre-sell-out alternative fiends who slept and ate the likes of Metallica, Nirvana, Soundgarden, L7, Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction before those annoying bandwagoneers jumped on and spoiled the secret--you still love your bands, but you hate the tag-alongs...
...tugboats, river barges, even rodents have a singularity that others overlooked: "A lust for blood seems to take & hold of the brown rat. One night, in the poultry part of old Gansevoort Market, alongside the Hudson, a burrow of them bit the throats of over three hundred broilers and ate less than a dozen. Before this part of the market was abandoned the rats practically had charge of it. Some of them nested in the drawers of desks. When the drawers were pulled open, they leaped out, snarling...
...doomsday government story required Gup to dig even deeper. "I ate a lot of dust," he says, while sifting through reams of official archives. He unearthed documents about how Washington planned to protect the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. During the reporting, Ted thought frequently of his two toddler sons David and Matthew. "I pray that they won't have to grow up under a cloud of anxiety and that all of this will seem exotic and far away to them...
Splendors contains many objects from the daily lives of the sultans. They ate from Chinese porcelain plates with rock crystal utensils. Young princes were dressed in silk-lined caftans emblazoned with tulips and pomegranates and rocked to sleep in hazelnut cradles plated in silver and sprinkled with emeralds and diamonds. When they went to war, they donned conical helmets decorated with floral patterns and studded with turquoise and rubies, fought with ivory-inlaid muskets and swords and slept in satin-lined field tents. Even their horses pranced around in gold-plated headgear and golden stirrups...
...liked to have someone rub his head with petroleum jelly while he ate...