Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women sat quietly all day, all night; old women made gross by lives of toil, pale young women with high heels and disordered hair. They stared. Sometimes, with vague and automatic obedience, they drank coffee or ate sandwiches which were offered them. Sometimes a woman would unlock the padlocked chain on which her dead husband's street clothes had been hoisted to the washroom ceiling. She would take the clothes down, fold them, and leave. But the room stayed quiet-so quiet at times that the distant tolling of church bells, the twitter of sparrows in the rafters, could...
...waged a good campaign. He stuck to local issues, made quiet, good-humored speeches, drank beer (which he dislikes) with the boys in the precinct clubs. He emphasized that he was no politician. Said one G.O.P. worker glumly: "Kennelly is running on his sainthood...
...Students were very excited when the last shipment of W.S.S.F. food came to the university," she recalled. "I remember how they tore open the packages immediately, and drank evaporated milk while the lecturer was talking...
...niceties of diplomacy were not entirely ignored. President Bierut held a formal reception (the invitations specified le cutaway). Britain's Cavendish-Bentinck and the U.S.'s Lane (in a dark business suit) showed up, shook Bierut's hand, drank his health, sat for an hour at a big round table and exchanged pleasantries with Bierut, Berman and others of the ruling clique. There was no hint of tension or mention of terror. Explained a Pole: "Everyone was extremely cordial and polite; after all, we are all gentlemen...
...ravens brought him [Elijah'] bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook...