Word: ately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rare as an albatross among the lumbering illiterates who chose to go to sea. Through a fierce exercise of will and pride he made himself a ship's master, but older preoccupations deep in his nature would not be denied. He spoke of the "private gnawing worm" which ate at his childhood. The worm was an unshakable sense of doom that haunted him, as did the stern themes of duty and responsibility. At the end of the world, on Borneo, he ran across a half-caste called Almayer who belonged to no world. Thus with Almayer's Folly began...
...another thing, the CRIMSON has tested Utility and found it is perfectly good. You know we found a dog the other day, or rather he found us. Anyway, we tried some utility meat on him. He ate...
...byliner for his old newspaper. Wrote Walker of the drought belt's 1956: "It was the year the windmills pumped air, the fish died in the dusty ponds, the jack rabbits nibbled prickly pear, the baby quail fell into the cracks in the earth, the termites ate the onions, the bankers forgot how to laugh and the rattlesnakes crawled into the living room...
...some cities, local colleges and universities are beginning to help the schools with their bright students. Last summer the University of Texas organized an intensive five-week course in advanced chemistry for high-school juniors. It stirred up so much enthusiasm, says Education Dean L.D. Haskew, "that they ate, drank and slept chemistry, and they are regular missionaries back in their schools...
Bread & Sweat. Reporting back to the tall colonel, who turned out to be Colonel Pal Maleter (later Defense Minister in the ten-day government of Imre Nagy), Peter at last ate some bread and tea. "Guys were sitting around everywhere. Many were sleeping on the floor." Sweating it out, Peter had time to think about the consequences of what he had done. He decided to go home. He told his wife he had been working all this time. But when he heard the official radio call the Freedom Fighters "counterrevolutionaries and fascists," he knew there would be reprisals...