Word: eaten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sick, as the state suffers severe economic megrims and rattles with real earthquakes, not toy ones, and realists among its population head for Oregon, where they are cordially requested to go away. Travel writing for such a pilgrim, over such terrain, is not going be a record of lotuses eaten and pretty girls embraced...
...Seattle Times drops Li'l Abner strips in which the hillbilly hero believes he's eaten one of his parents. Says the Times: "Distasteful...
Maybe death by flesh-eating bacteria isn't the worst way to go. When Nasir Jones was growing up in the projects in New York City, it sometimes seemed to him that his whole world was ill and being eaten away. Drugs were devouring minds, crime was destroying families, poverty was gnawing at souls. Then in May 1992, Jones' brother and best friend were shot on the same night. His brother survived, his friend died, and Jones knew he had to do something with his life. "That was a wake-up call for me," he says...
...British tabloids decided when they learned that the germ had caused a mini-outbreak of lethal infections in Gloucestershire last month, bringing the death toll in England and Wales for this particularly virulent form of strep to 11 for the year. The papers fanned fears with such headlines as EATEN ALIVE and KILLER BUG ATE MY FACE. And when a handful of cases, including at least one death, were reported in the U.S. last week, the coverage, particularly on TV, was only a little more subdued. Just about everyone was suddenly talking about the killer bug that destroys human flesh...
Sammell's thesis is on the societalimplications of consuming llama meat in La Paz,Bolivia. She is studying the class structure andurban mythology surrounding the dish, she says,which is only eaten by the lower classes...