Word: ates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office building in Washington's Watergate complex, a development where many Administration officials live. The board was put in by the Watergate management to attract brokerage-house tenants, but they are few. On one recent day, the only tape watchers were two caged red parrots that ate sunflower seeds and squawked as they observed the quotations...
...things was chewing doors. The teaching method? Simple: "We smeared the doorjambs with peanut butter." Another task: to nibble on people. Di Sesso's son, 18, spent a good part of three months lying down in a large box, his body covered with peanut butter, while baby rats ate their fill. "We kept adding more and more rats until finally we had 200 crawling over him," says Di Sesso. Young Di Sesso admits to having been a bit frightened at first, but by the end "I was laughing out loud." Reason? They tickled...
...stupid period. That's the worst thing you can say. But I've always believed it's futile to think about the past when you can't do anything about it. Some in a similar situation did keep thinking about it and it ate them up. You have to learn to survive...
...Quack. Restaurants were good, and food prices downright cheap, even in the best ones. Western dishes were scarce. "We ate Western food only at breakfast," reports Newsday Publisher William Attwood. "It was pretty bad." Roderick found his Chinese meals equaling or surpassing the best of Tokyo's fine Chinese restaurants. "Everything was just delicious," he recalls, "particularly a Peking duck dinner of six or seven courses at only $2.50 per person." Henry Kissinger also enjoyed a Peking duck banquet during his visit last month. "We ate everything but the quack," reported a Kissinger aide. So good was the food...
...Rockwell chatted with General Mohammed Medbouh, commander of the King's military household. "We are the only ones who take golf seriously," sniffed Medbouh. ∙ A lavish buffet, which included lobster, smoked salmon, roast sheep and couscous, was laid out, along with champagne and mint tea. Hassan ate with his seven-year-old son, Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed, one of his five children, under a special canopy. Near by sat Habib Bourguiba Jr., son of Tunisia's President. Italian Ambassador Amedeo Guillet, who makes it a practice never to eat at midday, lounged on a Moroccan pouf reading...