Word: eatening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some other kin-was always there to look after the fighting. The best of the lot of left-handed royalty was the Due de Vendome, who "at the age of 54 looked like an old, fat, dirty, diseased woman" and was syphilitic to boot ("his nose quite eaten away"), though on the battlefield he raged like a lion...
...probably safe to say that not very many people list dogsled driving as a hobby. No doubt only a few more can say that, while traveling by other means, they have been forced to drive off the road to avoid a moose and have had their leather two-suiter eaten by Eskimos. These very special experiences belong to Ed Ogle, an Indiana-born, New Orleans-trained newsman who for the past nine years has been our bureau chief in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and who traveled some 10,000 miles over his sprawling territory to do the major reporting for this...
...five-paneled altarpiece in the Church of Santa Croce. Underneath the thick overpainting, his restorer's eye told him, might lie a masterpiece. So even in the haste of the moment he took time to carefully examine the back. There he spotted a moldy, handwritten sticker, partially eaten away by termites: "Removed from...
...book's impatient thesis is that man ignorantly keeps trying to make a monkey out of the poor beast. "Apes," the Morrises write, "have been eaten, worshipped, hunted, hated, loved, mocked, feared, persecuted, protected, shot into space, featured on television, infected with syphilis and trained to collect flowers...
...year, as food output, man's struggle against hunger has reached a historic turning point. It has already forced dozens of ill-fed countries to start reshaping their pride-twisted economies. It has upset old notions of geopolitics. Most dramatic of all, it has virtually eaten up the perennial overproduction of U.S. agriculture, whose bounty now feeds one out of every 20 persons in Africa, Latin America and non-Communist Asia. The State Department last week told U.S. embassies to discourage requests for wheat because the nation must cut back such aid shipments by 25% this year...