Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cicero. One night last week Dago Mangano drove to Cicero, 111. for relaxation with Big Mike Pontelli (his bodyguard), and a girl named Rita Reyes, with whom Big Mike was enjoying a two-day binge. The trio drank innocently for several hours at the Paddock Lounge, a dim-lit bar which is tops in Syndicate society...
...General was miserably tired, his eyes ringed with deep black. But he drank heartily of Manhattans, French sauterne, American Burgundy and Portuguese champagne, and cleaned up his squab and asparagus tips. At 10:42 he was out in the lobby again. Many distinguished people have walked through the Carlton lobby, but never before had the well-dressed loungers bothered to stand up and applaud...
...Reason. Mitchell Paige, no cinema gyrene, was a quietly savvy guy. He neither smoked, drank, nor swore (his most rugged expletive was saved for the Japs: "damned slopeheads"). In Samoa he nursed a child through fever, was appointed by the natives as "Talking Chief"-tribal adviser...
They told me that sometimes she drank a glass of milk or a glass of water or ate a dark bread sandwich...
...Germans who occupied this peninsula were not ruthless; they were extremely well behaved. The townspeople say that the Germans ate and drank too noisily, but their treatment of the French was a little more than correct. Along the coast they fraternized with the local people with some success and at least two French wives or mistresses became snipers-although most of the women snipers were Germans (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). Some of the conscripted labor was French but much more was German, Italian and Russian. In one town, Bayeux, the German commandant managed to avoid sending the full quota of young...