Word: ately
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finding that mystified the doctors was the astronauts' significant weight loss. Cooper weighed in for lift-off at 152 Ibs., returned 7½ Ibs. lighter; Conrad started out at 154 Ibs., finished 8½ Ibs. lighter. The astronauts ate only 2,000 calories a day, compared with the 2,700 calories provided for them-but then, neither of them is a heavy eater. Dehydration? Though both astronauts drank six pints of liquid daily-which would seem to preclude the possibility of dehydration-doctors figured that there must be some still unknown factors in space flight that do dehydrate...
...serving meals both in the Union and in Quincy House, but now Quincy sits abandoned, lifeless in the midst of the 350 girls filling it, all of whom have to eat at the Union along with the other 4350 people in the Summer School, who, if they all ate there, would have to be served at the rate of 8 1/2 people a second in order to get their food in the frantic hour and a half allotted by the aforesaid Summer School administration, which can still alleviate the whole mess by opening up the Quincy House dining room, just...
Throughout most of history, no household of any substance woke, ate, played, lived or died without servants in attendance. Not so in the U.S. The fact is not just something for wives to natter about over the pink extension phone; most of them have stopped nattering about it long ago and accept it as a matter of course. Servantless living is so much a part of the American scene that a family with two cars in the garage, a kidney-shaped swimming pool, three TV sets, a $1,000 stereophonic unit, and a vacation cottage in the mountains...
...Offertory, with a chorus crooning the syllables of "hallelujah," reminded some listeners of mood-setting supper music. "That's the idea," says Episcopal Father Charles Gompertz, who persuaded Guaraldi to undertake the Musical Setting. "What does Communion represent but the Last Supper-the last time these men ate together...
Relief troops arriving to press the retreating Viet Cong looked around, vomited, then ate their rice and moved out. Marching through the monsoon rain past giant anthills and through a sepulchral rubber plantation, they came on the rolling field where the first relief force had been surrounded and wiped out. Sixty bodies lay beneath the bright green trees, while wounded flapped like broken butterflies...