Word: eate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South Arabia consists of the port of Aden and 17 feudal satraps whose Bedouin tribesmen eat goat meat and carry everywhere their curved djambias (daggers). Its life has been disrupted and its British-sponsored federal government destroyed by four years of terrorism and civil war. With the British will depart much of the country's economy. London paid most government expenses. British troops generated 30% of the country's gross national product, the British free port brought tourist dollars into Aden, and the British Petroleum Co. built the Federation's only significant industry-an oil refinery...
Radcliffe has slipped into the red several times in the last few years and has had to eat into its capital. Britten said this was not unusual. "Most colleges are facing this kind of problem," he said. "And Radcliffe is better off than most. We are not worried...
...Harvard finishes among the top six in the race, there is a good chance that the team will eat its Thanksgiving Day turkey somewhere in the mountains of Colorado. McCurdy said that in an effort to give the team top-level competition, the University may send it to the United States Track and Field Federation meet in Denver. Ordinarily, a Harvard team of this ability would compete in the NCAA's, but because of the feud between the Association and the Ivy League this year's squad won't participate...
...Negro leadership: "The leaders of the Negro revolution have no faith in the Negro masses, no concern for them. When I hear Stokely Carmichael, he's always asking, 'Give me the can opener, so I'll open the cans of power and eat them.' You waste your energies on demonstrations, on riots. They do not produce one atom of pride. You know the chemistry of pride, Mr. Sevareid? Pride. This is what the Negro needs, see. Viet Nam is going to do to the Negro what Israel has done for the Jews...
...Another thing is that federal programs eat up a lot of money in administrative costs. We've seen programs spend half their money on administration...