Word: ated
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...After the May riots, Arroyo blamed her fashion advisers for dressing her up "too rich." These days, she makes a visible effort to visit more slums, wearing jeans and traveling by cycle-rickshaw. As part of her makeover, her image doctors tried to promote Arroyo as Ate Glo, or "older sister" in Tagalog. But her polished hauteur has made it difficult for the sisterly tag to stick. Nobody doubts her guts or commitment, though: after being booed out of Tondo shantytown, she bravely went back and listened to the residents' many gripes...
...many, the notion that primitive hunters could have killed off more than 100 species of large animals has long seemed preposterous. While Homo sapiens certainly killed and ate the likes of mammoths and mastodons, notes Ross MacPhee, an expert on mammalian extinctions at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, it must have done so with great caution. As he puts it: "If some guy walked up to a mammoth armed only with a pointy stick, chances are he would have been road pizza within minutes...
...ate chicken wings from a prison vending machine b) said, "No one believes a word I say anyway, so..." c) devoured his soap on a rope...
...honorands ate last night at Annenberg Hall to music performed by Yo-Yo Ma '76 and members of the Harvard University Choir. They dined on smoked salmon, veal loin with Madeira sauce and tomato with turnip purée, with an almond tuile basket for dessert...
...sleety Sunday, the search committee ate a late lunch in the aptly named Intrigue Café. Reporters staked out the lobby, and the rumor mill was enchanted with a man named Bollinger...