Word: eaten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been handled very well...extremely thoughtfully," says Maher of the budget cuts. He points to Yale, Princeton and Stanford, where budget cuts have affected many more programs than at Harvard and have "really eaten into resources...
...oppressive. It appeals to sanctimony and makes the stuff easy to teach. It lets academics feel radical. Above all, by recognizing how full of social messages bad art as well as good can be, it expands the range of available thesis subjects and thus brings relief to the eaten-out pastures of American academe...
Scientists do not know exactly why cholera periodically explodes into epidemics. The bacteria that cause it are part of the aquatic ecosystem, helping to break down dead shellfish. Cholera germs travel up the food chain by attaching themselves to plankton, which are eaten by fish and then by people. Studies by Rita Colwell, professor of microbiology at the University of Maryland, suggest that a plankton bloom, a rapid growth like the one reported off the coast of Peru earlier this year, may help trigger epidemics...
...creamy-coloured cheese; the deep red of port; colours so intense and shades so subtle. I slipped softly into the world of the senses. A body that could stretch out fully to imprison, release, restrain or devour its prey, could now also eat food the way food should be eaten...
...prisoners, all reservists, said they had eaten only rice and bread containing sawdust for months. They also claimed they were terrorized by the Kwat al-Khasa, the Iraqi special forces, who threatened to kill them if they tried to desert. How could these pathetic men explain the atrocities committed by Iraqis in Kuwait? "We are the victims of this war," said one soldier who gave his name only as Ali. "One man ruled everything. He sent us to Kuwait, which is a friend and an Arab country. He did it out of envy." Another chimed in, "Saddam is a bloody...