Word: partook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woven fabric of Japanese society, ranging from Emperor Hirohito's public disavowal of the "false conception" of his own divinity, and the sweeping abolition of the stiff-necked nobility, to the entirely novel proposition (in famed Article 24 of the constitution) of equal marital status for women. Michiko partook of these changes in the protected society of one of Japan's newly rich families. For millions of other Japanese women it has been a wrenching experience...
Charlie Kettering became an inventor, perhaps the most successful of his day. He changed a nation's way of life, partly because, like the nation in which he lived and of which he partook, he respected both the theoretical ("Why is grass green?" he asked-and one of his bosses, former General Motors President Charles Wilson, came to use the question as an example of woolly-headed, time-wasting pure science) and the practical ("Remember," said Kettering, "that you and I get no place in the world except as we serve the fellow who pays for our dinner...
...conversations recorded here took place almost verbatim. They were taken down by two visitors to the Providence festivities, who partook of the proffered refreshments only in the sections indicated...
...diet (cold beef, olive oil, milk, cucumber salad, thrice daily, with hot chocolate between meals), but Dumas' eructations were so little lessened that he returned to his favorite, bouillabaisse. Dumas cooked this dish himself and liked to down six helpings of it at a sitting. A doctor who partook of it once spooned some of the juice into his pocket flask, explaining he could use it to scorch off warts...
...units partook of a vigorous scrimmage session, with the offensive team running plays against a J.V. defense, and the defensive eleven, still looking to bottle up Columbia passer Mitch Price and his speedy running mate, Bob Mercier, tested itself against a J.V. team using Columbia play variations...