Word: eats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grounds began its well-publicized campaign to wipe out the rabid squirrels by scattering poisoned acorns around the elm trees. The deranged squirrels, they reasoned, would overlook the incongruity and bury the nuts for future use. Then, when the Spring thaws came, the animals would dig the acorns, eat them, and expire...
...their warships maneuvered miles apart. France and Brazil at week's end seemed in no danger of trading shots. But Frenchmen, who each year eat 2,500 tons of lobster, nearly a third of it imported from such lobstering grounds as Brazil's, were forced to ponder an unsettling choice of loyalties-palate or patrie-and ask themselves, what price grandeur...
...Ginza rats are a special samurai breed that can usually chew through a conventional trap. The hunters had no illusions about their foe. "The Ginza rats are terribly clever," said one old rodent fighter. "You can't just leave a meatball by a rathole and expect them to eat it. That's much too obvious. What you must do is put the meatballs in, say, a cardboard box with a little hole in it. Then the rat will eat it thinking it's something you don't want him to have...
Plastered Skirmishers. Yemen's roads and fields are littered with the remains of dead Egyptians left to rot unburied. "Let the dogs eat the Egyptian dogs," spat a tribesman. The few Egyptians taken prisoner seem dazed and dejected. Private Amer Hussein Bahid, 24, of Cairo, was due for discharge in January after three years' army service. Instead, his company was airlifted to San'a and rushed off to launch a counterattack at Beit Miran. Said he: "About 25 miles from San'a we were ambushed. My company never got a chance to fight...
...works which have never been considered anything but orthodox." For example, Philip paraphrases St. John's Gospel on the importance of the Eucharist: "But what is this which will inherit? That which belongs to Jesus with his blood. Because of this he said 'he who shall not eat my flesh and drink my blood has no life in him.' He who has received these has food and drink and clothing...