Word: ately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stassen's clumsy disarmament negotiations, which had provoked beyond ignoring the kind of family fight that Ike hates most. Ike's crowded schedule may have thrown him off his diet; the most popular theory, mentioned by John Foster Dulles, was that it was the blueberry pie he ate the night of his illness. And there was also the theory that the President, like many another man under pressure, had been made susceptible to stomach upset by a slight case of nerves...
Hobnobbing with the great, M.G.M. ate tripe with Rodin, introduced Diaghilev to Picasso, was present when Clemenceau offered Claude Monet a seat in the French Academy (Monet refused). With such a star-studded cast, he can afford to throw away in a footnote the fact that Lenin once wanted to be an artist's model, gave up because he was too short...
...delight, and her mental antennae vibrate not only with a sense of the past but with an understanding of the present as well: "[Renaissance men] protested against the shortness of human life and against the instability of all things by being as alive as they possibly could be. They ate sensations by the spoonful and turned themselves into a salad of all sorts of contradictory human qualities. We today behave in the opposite manner. We imagine that the less different and the less conspicuous we are, the less we shall be noticed by the forces of life and the safer...
...white freshman athletic building, looked over at the little white colonial Hicks House on Holyoke Street, and disappeared into the Smith Halls, or walked down further, past the power plant on Boylston and Memorial Drive, to gaze at the Charles through the windows of Gore, Standish, or McKinlock. They ate in the separated dinning halls, met each other in the common rooms, and in a couple of months were so contented that they looked forward unhappily to having to leave their secluded dwellings with the Charles rolling alongside...
...difficult struggle as a young revolutionary, much as a capitalist uncle might rebuke a wastrel nephew with stories of his own five-mile hikes through the snow to the little red schoolhouse. Samples: "Chairman Mao's socks were full of holes, his clothes made of rough texture. He ate only two meals of rice and cabbage daily. His comrades urged him to eat more. Chairman Mao would not allow...