Word: ate
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Before long, New Yorkers were reading such whimsical ads as "Diane Shugrue ate 3,925 Dilly Beans last month. She didn't gain an ounce. (Is she tired of Dilly Beans!)" Radio listeners were subjected to a barrage of zany plugs interspersed with 20 seconds of weird "music to eat Dilly Beans by." One ad advised: "If your neighborhood grocer doesn't have a jar, knock something off the shelf on the way out." So many customers took it seriously that some grocers complained, and Dilly Bean changed its advice, now lightly urges frustrated customers: "Move to another...
...double the indemnity, the marriage was performed twice, first in civil ceremony, two days later by a rabbi. Marilyn ate matzo balls with her new in-laws, studied Judaism and became a convert to Miller's religion. Both sailed enthusiastically into the task of complementing their differences. As a British journalist wrote, parodying Longfellow in something called Highbrowarthur's Honeymoon...
...painted a world of beaches, picnics, race tracks and canals, of elegant ladies starting off to the theater and of young girls preening before the mirror. She feared that the impressionist obsession with light might be carried too far at the expense of form and harmony. The men who ate at her table sometimes chided her for her lack of adventure, but her nephew by marriage. Poet Paul Valéry, understood her better...
...airlines were only $930,000, a startling drop from earnings of $46,539,000 for the same period in 1959. The decline had a variety of causes. Although revenues for the airlines were up 9% this year, the cost of depreciating the expensive new jets shot up 27.8% and ate up profits. Operating expenses were up 16%, largely because of the increased cost of running the Lockheed Electra, which the Federal Aviation Agency ordered to fly 105 m.p.h. below its normal cruising speed...
...snap when bitten. When an upstate member of the New York state senate once derided a bill as being "as old and wrinkled as a warmed-over Coney Island hot dog," Nathan's indignantly fired off a batch of hot dogs to the state capital. The offending senator ate one and asked to have his remark stricken from the record...