Word: ately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Statistics show that many of the dreams are coming true. Mexico now prefers bread to the corn tortilla. In 1937 the average consumer ate 41 lbs. of wheat bread a year; now he eats 62 lbs. He switches from pulque (the fermented juice of the century plant) to beer. In 1941 per capita consumption of beer was 97 quarts; today it is 25. He spends money to see movies, bullfights and soccer games. In 1936 the average Mexican spent 1.42 pesos on entertainment; last year it was 7.05. He begins riding, if only a bicycle. Bike registrations climbed from...
...training meal has been a sacred part of the athletic credo for centuries. As a recent study of the matter concluded, "It has its roots in the superstition and magic of the unrecorded past." At one time men ate powdered lion's teeth to make them strong, and similar practices prevail in many primitive cultures even...
Collins put a verve into British T that BBC lacked-and viewers ate it up. He built up ATV's early audience with variety shows, brought over big American stars (Liberace, Pat Boone) and shows (Cheyenne and Wyatt Earp), went in for such serious topics as abortion and the U.S. recession, only last week featured Sir Laurence Olivier in his first TV play, a performance of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman. Collins' forward-looking programing has put five of ATV's shows among England...
Following Bumba's lead, the authorities began to exhume some bodies. Nine of them (eight men and a woman) were found to have been partly dismembered, apparently to make ritual meals for cannibals. Ten suspects were rounded up and they readily admitted murdering 34 victims, explained that they ate the hand muscles of their victims to gain the skillfulness of the murdered one, the heart and liver to acquire his courage, the sexual organs to gain his power. Like the famed Aniotas or leopard men, Belgian officials say, the murderers often wore hooded, waist-long cloaks of crocodile skin...
...bafflement about the white man's justice. In their eyes could be read their failure to understand why they had been arrested. True, they had killed Basuas-but are not the Basuas enemies of the Panamoli? True, they had disguised themselves in crocodile skins-but why not? They ate part of their victims' bodies-but how else could they appropriate the victims' personal qualities...