Word: ated
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...India's state-owned television network. I was living in India at the time and saw how the show changed people's lives. Overnight, Guinness mania swept the country as ordinary Indians, determined to achieve immortality, grew record-busting mustaches, walked vast distances with milk bottles on their heads, ate light bulbs and wrote poems on rice grains. Among those persistent enough to make it into the book was Shridhar Chillal, who still holds the record for the longest fingernails, at a combined 6.15 meters. He told me he wanted to saw the nails off but would do so only...
NATHAN'S: N.Y.C. Thomas rival Takeru Kobayashi, who ate 44.5 hot dogs in 12 min. to win last July, once scarfed down 57 cow brains...
...true” ethnic identity came out exclusively in the realm of my home life. I spoke Bengali with my parents and ate Indian meals. Family occasions and religious festivals were, among other things, excuses to get dressed up in my favorite ghagra outfit. I was raised strictly Indian, with the standards and cultural values to match. But among my high school friends, my “Indianness” was, more than anything else, a source of amusing stories about strict parents and endless weddings, and the justification for sitting through a four-hour Hindi movie...
...player and proud of it. "I aspired to be the next Clark Clifford," he writes,"[who] set the standard for practicing law as an ultimate Washington insider." He occasionally gilds the lily, telling us which other insiders he dined with, which trendy spot they frequented and even what they ate...
When the horn sounded, all that Harvard’s seniors could do was hug and cry. For the eight of them who lived and ate and slept and watched TV and studied together for four years, that...