Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women were prettier and the drunks were drunker, but it all seemed very human. People who drove too fast had accidents, people who drank too much got sick, and half the people who made bets lost them...
Nothing interested Henry Sr. so much as his sons' education. Result: their schooling was highly erratic. Henry Jr. remembered his father as "delighting ever in the truth" but "generously contemptuous of the facts ... we wholesomely breathed inconsistency and ate and drank contradictions...
...After Chiang split with the Communists, Liu went to the Moscow Military Academy. On the Communists' famous retreat into Shensi (1934-35), Liu negotiated with savage Lolo chieftains to give the Communists safe passage through their forests. To seal their agreement, Liu and the Lolos' high chieftain drank newly killed chicken's blood. They swore, in this ancient feudal ceremony, that whoever broke the agreement would end up like the chicken...
...well as a stout prop for a winning ball team. Rickey and his men scouted Robinson until they knew everything about him but what he dreamed at night. Jackie scored well on all counts. He did not smoke (his mother had asthma and cigaret fumes bothered her); he drank a quart of milk a day and didn't touch liquor; he rarely swore; he had a service record (as Army lieutenant in the 27th Cavalry) and two years of college (at U.C.L.A.). He had intelligence, patience and willingness. He was aware of the handicaps his race encounters...
...rooms in the Government's $540,000 Portillo Hotel were ready for skiers. Cost per person: $9 a day with meals. (Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 a day without meals.) Argentines and Americans, as well as Chileans, took the sun on Portillo's terraces, drank pisco sours†and watched the condors circle high above the glacial Lake of the Incas. Almost everybody turned in at 10 so as to be bright and early for the morning's fresh snow and perhaps a lesson from French ex-World Ski Champion Emile Allais...