Word: ately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Railmen argue that passengers must carry more of the load because of the railroads' sharply falling freight business. Passenger losses ate up 52% of the Pennsylvania's freight profit in the first eight months of 1957, and 61% of the New York Central's. Says an official of Illinois Central, whose overall net is down from last year's $23.8 million to $16.5 million: "We've just got to sew up some of the holes in our pockets...
Roosevelt did not eat at the large common dining halls in college. For the freshman year, prep school graduates generally ate at their own special tables in Cambridge eating houses. "Our table, you will be glad to hear, began at lunch yesterday," he wrote to his mother, "and the crowd is a very nice one and next to the table of some of the other Grotonians...
...upperclass years, Roosevelt ate at his various sophomore, junior, and "final" clubs--the Institute of 1770, the DKE, and the Fly. But he failed to gain election to the most elite club--the Porcellian--despite the fact that his cousin Theodore had been a member. A scandal involving one of his cousins may have hurt his chances. But whatever the reason for his rejection, it was a serious blow to him. Eleanor Roosevelt thought it gave him an inferiority complex and led him to become more democratic...
That evening the President got up from his bed, ate a light dinner with Mamie from a tray in the family living room. After dinner they watched TV (John Daly, Wyatt Earp and some dial-flipping) before the President turned in at 10 o'clock for the night...
...when the Lord was angry) and in black (when he was not), the typewritten letters demanded that Barzilai return all documents and paraphernalia to Barti. The return address was not heaven, but % Rabbi Barti. Finally, Barti ordered Barzilai to Tiberias to fast for 40 days. "I ate nothing but a few slices of bread and drank nothing but water," said Barzilai. "But I did do quite a lot of thinking." As a result of his thinking, Barzilai went to the police and Rabbi Barti landed in jail...