Word: drank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Republican, even I am ashamed of the poisonous words which so-called "Representative" Rankin from Mississippi poured out recently in Congress. As an American, I am even more ashamed of the silent members of this body who drank it all in without a word of protest...
...Marshal Budenny for a signature on his short-snorter. Budenny refused to sign his name on Soviet currency with Lenin's picture. Then he refused to sign the currency of any sovereign nation. Finally he wrote his name on a plain slip of paper. Budenny and the American drank a toast. "May the next one be in Berlin," said the American. Bowing low, Budenny hoped the next would be much sooner than that...
...German lifted his glass. "Also Mahlzeit," he said, and added: "For peace." We drank. "Good beer," said the German, licking his lips. It was Swedish Pilsener Klass Tvä, an extremely mediocre beer. "We can still get beer in Berlin, but it is not so good," the German said...
...Rhodes and seek his protection. He will be your chief and your friend." The king turned to Magwegwe, the next in rank, and said: "Do you remember your words?" And Magwegwe answered: "Yes, King. When you die, so shall I die." Lobengula took a small bottle and drank. Magwegwe did likewise. They both died that...
Some of our correspondents ate Christmas dinner in style. Steve Laird was invited to a castle outside London where he "drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert...