Word: ating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crane, John Connally and Robert Dole-spent years of their lives in their efforts. They used up tens of millions of dollars of other people's money (plus a fair amount of their own), traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, gave tens of thousands of largely repetitive speeches, ate uncounted meals of numbing mediocrity, and largely abandoned their families and their usual pursuits. All in vain...
Still, one of the most memorable moments of the trip for Carter did not take place during the formal talks on San Giorgio Maggiore island but during a simple breakfast of bread, milk and cheese that he ate one morning with a dozen Benedictine monks. Carter was the only one of the seven leaders to accept the monks' invitation to share a meal at their 16th century monastery. Relating the experience afterward to a rather incredulous British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Carter said that the monks had offered a special prayer...
...Sunday, the day before the trial was to open, King rose early, ate breakfast and then suddenly overpowered his wife and tied her to a chair. Said he: "I love you and I don't want to hurt you." He scribbled the cryptic passage on a scrap of paper, armed himself and sallied forth in his white Ford Fiesta to make "war" on the parishioners...
...never ate a bug that big before," says I the old gunfighter (Steve McQueen), faced down by a lobster at a cattlemen's banquet in a raw Wyoming town. His voice is soft, whisky-warm and a bit rueful; he knows that in 1901 his day is over, that he is out of place among the boost ers and dealers who have built the town and fenced the range. They have brought him here to wipe out a gang of rustlers, but his murderous skills and cranky in dependence make the clean-shirt-once-a-week crowd nervous. Before...
...Coca-Cola Heiress Frances Woodruff of Atlanta is said to be the oldest woman ever to ride and fly a hang glider. In Pampa, Texas, Plumber Ronnie Farmer, 29, ate 100 hot jalapeno peppers in 15 minutes, destroying the previous record (94 in 111 minutes) and probably his innards as well. In Japan, Hideaki Tomoyori has learned to carry the mathematical formulation pi (3.141 etc.) to 20,000 places, putting to shame his own earlier record of 15,151 places...