Word: ately
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month-big money in Greece. Once they got to the Dominican Republic, they were ordered to draw uniforms and arms as members of Trujillo's foreign legion. When they refused, they were thrown naked into communal and solitary cells at La Victoria prison outside Ciudad Trujillo. They ate slop, were beaten unconscious with clubs and wire whips, scalded with boiling water. Treatment got better when they agreed to try soldiering, but after two months they still refused to enlist and were tossed back into jail. The Greek embassy in Washington finally negotiated their freedom...
...groups? Heredity was ruled out. Both groups came from white northern European stock, had similar histories of family disease. The grandparents of the high school men were even slightly longer-lived. Personal habits were not the answer. Both groups had about the same diet, though the high school men ate less for breakfast, more between meals...
Yemenite Jews ate meat only about once a week. But they drank oceans of tea and coffee, and heady, 100-proof arrack distilled from citrus fruits and sugar-beet molasses...
...Metzger ate twice a day (he lost 4 Ibs.), read the Bible, watched TV through a window in the 7-ft. diameter cone, slept only six hours a night but made up for it by lying on his back some twelve hours a day, doing nothing at all. Sheets of potassium superoxide absorbed his breath, removed the potentially poisonous carbon dioxide and released the fresh oxygen that he lived on all week. He came through so well that the space doctors are now at last ready to try the test in the weightless condition of actual space, first with animals...
...religion of personal salvation rather than the national salvation hoped for by Judaism. As Paul and Barnabas made more and more converts, opposition to them began to grow among the conservative Jewish Christians, who were shocked to find communities calling themselves Christian whose members were uncircumcised and ate what they liked...