Word: ates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cardinal in 1969, he remained a political and social progressive, and something of a chaplain to the demimonde. The cardinal was "profoundly compassionate," explained Fellow Jesuit Xavier Tilliette. If he also "ran risks to the point of imprudence," he was only following "the example of the Divine Master, [who] ate and drank as a friend of publicans and sinners...
Like a placard bearer of apocalypse, he foretells man's doom from his bloody beginnings. The thesis: man evolved from perverted apes who ate the brains of other apes. Brains being an aphrodisiac, they increased the sex drive, which in turn increased the need for more brain food. This diet increased the size of the ape man's brain and his intelligence. Unfortunately, the skull did not increase as fast as the brain, and the resulting pressure distorted man's view of himself as a part of nature. The squeezed-brain syndrome gave rise...
Anyway, the preppie's theory ate shit. It went something like this: Unable to admit his limitations, he had constructed this paranoid world, where administrators and professors conspired to get him. Enough disappointments occurred to feed his fear; in a very real sense the system provided millions of opportunities for people bent on destroying other people. The preppie said that his paranoia made it possible for him to accept failure because in his world, failure was not his fault...
...Devine see any diminished appetite. Nixon ate his crab claws with gusto as the Sequoia plied the waters of the Potomac. He chewed through a good slice of roast beef, ate carrots and beans, polished the meal off with ice cream...
Raisins are more complicated: if you ate them in your dream, tough luck, because "you can expect a season of cash going out faster than it comes in." If you stuck them in your ear, for instance, or fed them to a janitor, you can count on "pleasant social times ahead." The entry under "Pickle" is more or less what the amateur would expect: "overall satisfaction with the general state of your life, love, and pursuit of happiness is forecast." "Petunia" shows a need for professional guidance. Growing outdoors, "these flowers signify pleasant friendly social affairs." A petunia indoors foretells...