Word: ating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patient to make an absolute commitment to change, then guarantee a cure but do not tell the patient what it is for several weeks. "Once you postpone, you never lose them as patients," he said. "They have to find out what the cure is." One bulimic who ate in binges and threw up five to 25 times a day was told she would be cured if she gave the therapist a penny the first time she vomited and doubled the sum each time she threw up. Says Haley: "They quickly figure out that it doubles so fast that they...
...Linkletter show, they announced her grand prize: a trip to Europe to see the fashion houses. She went to France, drank wine, ate well, saw the Folies-Bergere. It broadened her, and later, when men came into her life, she found them "drippy" for all their narrow interests, to say nothing of the feeling she had that none was the sort to take her back to Europe...
...problem wasn't the Cabot House food she ate prior to last night's women's hockey game against the University of New Hampshire but, rather, a blast off the stick of Wildcat defender Pam Manning that found Neilson's gut instead of the back of the Crimson twines...
...audience leaped to embrace the speaker while sitting still. They ate him up. His words were devoured the way seals snap at fish. You could see the words settle in the crowd's bellies; 25,000 satisfied customers packing New York City's Madison Square Garden last Monday night to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, bring his dual message of self-help and hate. The message of hate predominated. How the crowd hungered for that meal. At the words of defiance they stood and roared. At the in-jokes they laughed joyfully. At the derisive...
...They tell me he went up to Memphis, and he ate a mess of fish, and he drank an ocean of whiskey, and he died, just keeled on over. Fish and whiskey. Who'd of thought...