Word: ating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...itinerant handyman. "He's a genius," he assures strangers. And indeed, Allie does more than talk. On a whim, he bundles his wife, Charlie, a younger son and twin daughters off the Massachusetts farm he has been working and takes them to Honduras. He explains: "I once ate a banana from Honduras. That tasted mighty good, so I figured why not migrate...
...White House lunch last week, guests at the President's table, including F.D.R.'s son Jimmy, ate off china from the Roosevelt years. In a deft tribute, Reagan recalled his first glimpse of F.D.R. "It was 1936, a campaign parade in Des Moines, Iowa. What a wave of affection and pride swept through the crowd." Reagan obliquely compared Roosevelt with himself; he praised the American ability to "sense when things have gone too far, when the time has come to make fundamental changes. Franklin Roosevelt was that kind of a person too." The President then led a toast...
...morning after the Inauguration, Roosevelt ate an early Sunday breakfast, then had himself wheeled into the Oval Office to get his New Deal under way. In the vacated presidential desk he could find neither a pencil nor a pad of paper. He could find no buzzer with which to summon an aide. He paused for an echoing moment in this vacuum of power, then threw back his head and shouted until a secretary came running...
...second drawing is of a bright orange skeleton with tears in its eyes and a grim mouth in an open frown. "I drew this after the death of my mother. I ate leaves then. That is why there is a tree in the picture...
Well, the proud innkeep asked the Queen to upcreep a stairway that no one could see; When dinner was served, she ate unobserved, then again wafted downways by stair...