Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long after Yü, but at the dawn of Chinese history, the Shangs sat on the throne of China (1766-1122 B.C.). They offered wine to their ancestral spirits and to the gods of the air, and poured liba tions to the gods of the earth. What remained, they drank - it could infuse spirit into even the dullest men. They poured the wine in bronze pots and cups which were shaped to a perfection that perhaps no metal work has equaled since...
...president of the Yewnited States Bank, which was a wily scheme to get hard money away from the COMMON MAN and give him scraps of paper in exchange. This Biddle was a bad actor. He did not eat with his knife and he foregathered with cronies who drank soup in silence so they could hear each other plot against the COMMON MAN. They were called Federalists. They held that some of the COMMON MEN could be hoodwinked all of the time, and that that was enough. They plotted to keep the COMMON MAN from being hoodwinked by anybody else...
Delegates ate "austerity" cakes (without icing), drank sugarless coffee, stared enviously from crowded hotel rooms at the snug Nissen huts in London's parks. The war without parades had produced a peace conference without glamor...
When the first news came to the fighting fronts, G.I.s yelled wildly, pounded backs, fired guns, drank hoarded whiskey. On Okinawa the night was lighted by millions of tracer bullets as men fired rifles, machine guns, antiaircraft guns. Green and yellow flares glared in the darkness. Ships offshore, fearing a Kamikaze attack, laid down a smoke screen, opened up with antiaircraft guns. Veterans had seen nothing like it during the whole battle for the islands. The celebration had tragic consequences : six men were killed, 30 wounded...
...Stone's) and curly-haired Chuck Maxon (Paul Whiteman's)-growled "Pedal G," their lowest possible note. The reeds began to wail. When the melody of the old hymn, Bringing in the Sheaves, roared through, Brick nodded happily: "It's in there." He lit a cigaret, drank a glass of water and visited the control room, all the time directing the band with his pinkie, and rocking his head like a strutting turkey gobbler...