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Word: ates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...true that the Lord slept late on the seventh day. He woke up around noon, took two aspirin for his hangover and then ate a brunch consisting of scrambled eggs, bagels and lox. Afterward, He relaxed by lying on the living room sofa but He soon became bored because there was nothing to do. You see, He had not yet created the Sunday comics or television so He could not watch the playoffs...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: Underspin and Funding Trouble Ping Pong Team | 5/5/1977 | See Source »

...discrepancy in the duo's scores, there were also temperamental difference. Fitzgibbons claimed to be "psyched out" by the high scoring of "S." Fitzgibbons has an affinity for shooting "low numbers," subscribing to the philosophy of the Scottish prof of old who gritted his teeth and said: "I 'ate heights." The plight of "S" is just as pitiful, for he faced an unequal task in competing with Fitzgibbons. He was not "playing a proud game," as caddies are wont to say. Nor is Fitzgibbons always the most encouraging of playing partners. His own words attest to his highstrung nature...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: A Spring Round With Spence | 4/29/1977 | See Source »

...narrow puritan ethic. As Ned ("Scooter") Ryan, Dzundza viscerally endows the prosecuting attorney with the instincts of a fox in a hen coop. Always grave and commanding in presence, Earle Hyman has to wait to the end of the play to deliver the doctor's passion ate plea for the right of a woman to terminate her own pregnancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Stop Watch on Life | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...from Harvard, where Champion worked in Mass Hall as financial vice president, ate lunch at the Faculty Club, and got phone calls from frantic Crimson reporters...

Author: By David B. Hilder, | Title: Making the Big Time, Finally | 3/26/1977 | See Source »

...Rarely did she and the Chairman go out together. Almost never did they dine out for their own pleasure. Since they made their home in Peking, they went to restaurants (a pleasure of her younger days) only a few times. The Chairman was not very careful about what he ate, she admitted with a wry smile. He ate quickly, and was usually full by the time the last course arrived. What happened was that he forgot that there would be a last course, and by the time it arrived, he had no interest in it. That habit of his reminded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Comrade Chiang Ch'ing Tells Her Story | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

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