Word: chews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...usual, Rheinbraun's resettlement teams have been at work well in advance of the company's Krupp-built Bagger, monstrous earth removers that are two football fields long, four stories high, and can chew up 200,000 tons of earth in a day. The Hambach pit (named after a nearby village) will mean the loss of four communities with a total population of about 10,000. A number of villagers are vocal about the loss of their homes and what they consider inadequate compensation offers by Rheinbraun. Says Gerhard Heyden, a schoolteacher in the doomed town of Lichsteinstrass...
...John F. Kennedy's closest friends, once wrote that "History will best judge Kennedy in calmer days when time has made the tragic and the grotesque at least bearable." These words indicated Bradlee's healthy disrespect for historians. After all, they are predators to trade. They pick and chew over great lives and great events. As time passes, the pendulum swings and historical opinion changes...
...philosophy that students and staff were part of the same Harvard community, and he could relate to the lowest of the supporting staff," one kitchen worker said. "Bok looks by you when he walks, and Pusey would say hello to the lowliest worker. Pusey would and could chew you out, but he approached you as a human being," the worker added...
...take time off until Harvard hockey got better, but decided not to so he wouldn't miss any of George's games? And what about the manic fan in section 14 with the orange hat and the rubber chicken, the one who always leaned over the glass to chew out the refs? What will...
Some of the spectators who packed the courtroom last week for the bond hearing are actually fans of Davis' and have followed his trials for two years. Many are bleached blondes, with heavy makeup and flashy jewelry, resembling Priscilla or Davis' girlfriend, Karen Master. They chew gum and file their nails during the proceedings. During the recesses, they talk of their fondness for the various participants, especially the darkly handsome Davis, as if they were favorite characters on a television soap opera. Says one spectator, Mrs. Texas Methven, a middle-aged retired secretary: "I'm praying...