Word: ately
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo was quiet again. The royal couple ate an early supper, read the evening papers, watched themselves for a while on TV. Finally, the 80-year-old Chief Ritualist and his wife brought in the four silver trays with the 26 rice cakes that would remain on the bedroom altar for three days to ensure the early arrival of an heir. At 10 p.m., lights went out at the Eastern Palace...
...from the world except by air, with its population combatting the difficulties of the Chinese war resistance and sweating out bomb raids in the crowded caves through 1942. Fairbank himself was beset with jaundice and dysentery, but says he was not in much danger of losing his life. "We ate better than the poor people," he reports, although stringy water buffalo meat and goat's milk doesn't sound too appetizing today. The group he was with lived
...generally been considered a lethal dose for man (see MEDICINE). But a mature kissing bug, Dr. Baldwin finds, can survive 50,000 roentgens. When he bombarded small spots on young kissing bugs with 2,000,000-volt X rays, he found the cells apparently unaffected. But when the insect ate, setting off the mechanism of cell division and molting, the latent damage appeared. The irradiated spots developed blisters and degenerated...
...Nazis, then the Communists in the Greek civil war of 1947-49. He had run for Parliament as an extreme right-wing candidate and lost. Then he began to think of doing something about the British rule on Cyprus, the island where he was born. For months he ate nothing but fruit, trained himself for what was to follow. On the afternoon of Oct. 6, 1954, he walked out of his Athens home, telling his wife Kiki: "Don't worry. I'll be back soon." But he also instructed her to burn his old clothes, so that...
...half-dollars he saved grew steadily, and for good reason. Fraiman lived like a pauper. His home was surrounded by his junkyard near Hatboro, Pa., 15 miles north of Philadelphia. He used an outhouse, burned wood in his stove, ate out of cans. He paid a marriage broker only $15 of the promised $50 fee for finding him a wife, on the theory that it might not work out. It didn't, not after she was extravagant enough on one occasion to squander $1 for a taxi ride home...