Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then, on another occasion, on July 4, 1850, a sad event took place. President Zachary Taylor came out here to a celebration such as this, and he delivered the oration of the day. Then, it being hot as it is now, he ate cherries and fruit, and drank a lot of water, and he went back to the White House and on July 9, he was dead. Let's hope that nothing of that sort happens here today...
...Done Up Nice." It seemed like a lot of money. He never drank-New York was so exciting that it drove his imagination crazy without it-but he "loved life, done up nice." On Saturday nights he dressed in his best and saw the city. He ate at Healy's famed restaurant on 66th Street, and watched "how the dainty people acted there." He saw every show in town. He worked hard to lose his brogue-he was determined not to go on being a gawky country...
Stassen, charging back into the state which he once thought was sewed up, had traveled some 2,465 miles in nine days. He spoke in a drenching rain at Coos Bay, addressed a crowd huddled under umbrellas at Newport, rode a white horse in Ontario, drank "blue ox milk" to please Roseburg's Paul Bunyan Club. Despite his victories over Dewey in Wisconsin and Nebraska, Stassen could not afford a defeat. But neither could Dewey. It was a knock-down fight which had astonished nobody so much as the open-mouthed voters of Oregon...
...whose farms had been bought by the planters. In this class, two-thirds of the men had been killed or crippled in the war. They were wretched beyond description, living in cabins with hencoop sides and porous roofs. Wrinkled, filthy, with desperate eyes and unkempt hair, they chewed tobacco, drank, fought, lived a life "of rare day's works, some begging, some stealing, much small, illicit bargaining, and frequent migrations...
...slowly rising. He hurriedly summoned the ship's surgeon, who spoke knowingly of a disengagement of air. Some of the brandy was drawn off from the cask's lower bunghole and it was refilled from the top. The legend that sailors tapped the cask and drank off the brandy is apparently apocryphal...