Word: ately
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...Munir stomach medicine, but it had no effect. At one point, Munir asked the flight attendant if he could lie down in the aisle next to the lavatories. She put him in a seat nearby, and Munir drifted off to sleep. Hakim subsequently returned to business class, slept, and ate breakfast. A few hours before the plane was scheduled to land in Amsterdam, the purser asked Hakim to check on Munir, who didn't appear to be breathing. The human-rights activist was dead...
...withdrawal and rejection. We need to enjoy living, no matter what our calendar years. David A. Sorber, M.D. Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. My mother lived for 100 years and 4 months. She gave birth to all nine of her children at home. She had no special diet; in fact she ate exactly what she wanted. She came to the U.S. from Italy at age 19. She never learned to drive, so she walked everywhere. When she was in her 90s, a young mugger tried to grab her purse. She whacked him on the head with it and spewed a few choice...
...majority leader Bill Frist hopelessly behind schedule on other bills that he wanted to rush through before the Thanksgiving recess. Reid planned everything carefully, down to his diet. So he wouldn't be forced to go to the bathroom and lose his right to the floor, he ate only a slice of wheat bread and a handful of unsalted peanuts for breakfast, kept Senate pages from refilling the water glass at his desk and made sure he sipped only half of it during...
When sophomore defenseman Dylan Reese skated close to the boards, he yelled out, “I ate Reese’s pieces for dinner”—oblivious to the fact that Reese’s parents sat just a few seats away from...
...besieged compound in Ramallah to seek treatment; if he did, Arafat feared, the Israelis might block him from returning. In recent weeks, as his health deteriorated, Arafat's official spokesmen said it was nothing serious. By early last week, Arafat couldn't keep food down; even the cornflakes he ate on Thursday morning had to be pureed. He was unable to move his legs fully and couldn't see from one eye. On Thursday morning, a group of visiting doctors from Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan, along with a Palestinian colleague, went to Arafat's bedroom and told him that...