Word: devoured
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True, when a worker is chased he may be honestly frightened, but soon the scares of the day become routine and serve as exciting tales for the evening while hungry freedom workers devour plates of butter beans and corn in the "living room" of the freedom house. Cleveland Sellers, SNCC staff workers, jokes with a vounteer, "What you need is someone to ride shotgun...
...week long, the four young British singers progressed through scenes that might have been whimsically imagined by Dante. Whether it was New York or Miami, teen-aged girls by the massed thousands closed in as if to devour them. They pressed in and literally over the Beatles' limousines, standing on hoods and tops, screaming. On a brief trip to Washington, hundreds of grotesquely clawing hands reached toward them through the massive iron bars that partition Union Station. At a sell-out concert in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, the Beatles stood on the stage in a hail of their...
...away the mortgage; she says she hates the house. He hands her a ticket to Europe; she swears she will not go. What does she want? Her sister thinks she knows: "You want to sleep with him. You always have." But the audience knows better: she really wants to devour him. And at the climax she does...
With classes averaging only 25 students, Beverly Hills' teachers exult in teen-agers who devour not only college calculus but European university texts. "Intellectual enrichment" is so big at Beverly that 100 kids show up at 7:30 every morning for noncredit seminars on such matters as "The Social Responsibility of the Scientist." The school has 60 clubs, a college-level literary magazine, first-rate music groups, theater workshops, and art classes that fill one wing of the building. Its team teaching system cuts some teachers' classloads to 15 hours a week, allowing research for thoughtful lectures...
...every yet unexploited quarter of the world... But always while they divide the spoil, they watch one another with a jealous eye; and sooner or later, when there is nothing left to divide, they will fall upon one another. That is the real meaning of your armaments; you must devour or be devoured. And it is precisely these trade relations which it was thought would knit you in the bonds of peace, while, by making every one of you cut-throat rivals of the others, have brought you within reasonable distance of a general war of extermination...