Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the intellectuals of 18th Century England mapped out an Age of Reason, God did not altogether concur in their plan. He continued to turn out many odd and upsetting creatures-parsons who were hanged, poets who went mad, lords who started riots, scholars who drank ink, dukes who lost ancestral estates on a throw of the dice. Or, if a man of reason appeared, he might be almost too rational : Admiral Byng, on the morning of his execution, blandly "took his usual draught for the scurvy...
...marked the turning point in his life with a carefully written, ambitious, disappointing novel about insanity, Tender Is the Night. By 1935, his body had begun to crack. He drank too much; he was dogged by insomnia; he drugged himself with Napoleonic dreams of military prowess and imaginary victories on the Princeton football field. He was haunted by adolescent disappointments, such as having lost the presidency of a sophomore club and not having gone over seas in the war. He described himself as a man "standing at twilight on a deserted range, with an empty rifle in [his] hands...
...four-lane paved highways laced the island, leading from harbor to cold-storage plants, asphalt works and ammo dumps. Spread across the island were neat tent cities where marines lived between campaigns, rest camps where submarine crews breathed the fresh smell of jungles, recreation centers where Navymen played baseball, drank strictly rationed beer. Four Fleet and three Army hospitals could accommodate nearly 10,000 patients, and back & forth along the asphalt highways roll caravans of khaki ambulances with their pitiful loads...
...Partisan performance of Rigoletto, British and Yugoslav soldiers sat next to each other with Tommy guns resting on their knees. (At a banquet in celebration of Tito's 53rd birthday, British General Sir John Harding, U.S. General William Livesay, and other Allied officers dined & drank with their Partisan "enemies...
Major Milton R. Knight of San Angelo, Tex. had just parachuted from an exploding B-29 off the Marianas. His life jacket would not inflate. Exquisitely balancing the principles of survival and buoyancy, Knight drank half the water in his canteen, poured out the rest, stoppered it and tied it to his belt. It was still helping him float more than three hours later when a Navy surface vessel picked...