Word: ately
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talked well, ate well, hunted superbly, and knew every U.S. President from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson. The wedding reception of his daughter Clare in 1910 was attended by four members of the British Cabinet, including Churchill, then Home Secretary. It was also attended by several bill collectors, who were seated by themselves in a downstairs parlor. Frewen had, however, paid cash for his daughter's wedding gown. The seamstress who delivered it that morning had refused to accept a check...
...keep him below decks much of the time, poring over charts- an occupation that undoubtedly contributes to his mal de mer. "I don't see how Huey enjoys sailing," says an Ondine deck hand. "He's seasick all the time. During the whole Bermuda race, he only ate a couple of pieces of bread and drank a little water...
...within these limits we sometimes achieved with each other a freedom that was close to love. I remember, anyway, church suppers and outings, and, later, after I left the church, rent and waistline parties where rage and sorrow sat in the darkness and did not stir, and we ate and drank and talked and laughed and danced and forgot all about...
...people trooped through the Union, registered, ate vichyssoise, cold turkey, and tomato aspic salads, then trooped out again carrying immense bundles of Class of 1943 Paraphernalia: '43 wastebaskets, '43 combs, '43 razors, '43 lipstick, '43 keychains, '43 showercaps...
...group of fishermen, who had been forbidden by the Viet Cong to fish in the forest ponds, turned arsonists in pique and started a forest fire. At almost the same time fires accidentally started in other parts of the forest. Whipped by changing winds, the fires met, melded, and ate their way through the U Minh at one-third of a mile an hour...